His voice was deep but had a gentle tone to it. ‘Ladies, I am the Warlord Dominic Cassiss. You can call me Warlord or Sir. As my first commander sai..., you are the women who had a stay in the dungeons here, I want each of you to tell us what your crimes were.’ His accent was heavy with some words but others you couldn’t tell that he wasn’t from the lands. As soon as he said his name, the women began to huddle together. They had heard stories about the Warlord Cassiss and nothing was good. But. It was half-past eight when Nora went to bed, and Billie decided she'd read some more on the book she'd started. When she was stretched out on her bed, puzzling over a long word, Lonnie came in and started to undress. Nora had fixed him a thin, narrow pallet against one wall, and though it didn't look very comfortable to Billie, the boy didn't seem to mind."Hey, B-Billie-Ann," he stammered after taking' off his shirt, "could you close your eyes till I'm under the sheets?"Billie looked at him,. " He strode across the compound towards a man who appeared about to drop from nervousness, and said to him, "You! You're the one who came back?" Y... yes" Who let'y out las' night?" It was Gramel, cap'n," came the stuttering reply."Go fin' Gramel and kill'im," said Barrad, his voice laced with threat. "Then kill yerself."The pirate captain turned and walked away without waiting to see whether his orders would be carried out. He suspected they would not, not that he could blame the man.. I replied that Emily is welcome to join and I asked her if she wasn’t weirded out? Emily’s reply was that she thought it was hot and would love to tease Dave on the condition that I was not allowed to tell him who it was. Even if he thought it was one of the neighbours, he wouldn’t know which girl it was and Emily thought she’d have fun with this secret for a long time. Emily did ask if she thought Dave would be OK and I told her that Dave’s had a crush on her and her house mate since he moved.