’ She giggled before she took a sip of her tea. She then placed the mug on a coaster, sliding a spare one down the glass table for me. I wasn’t te...ribly fond of boring, old tea but I decided to give it a sip. Then two sips. ‘Mm, this is really good!’ I remarked. Before long, I had finished the whole darn cup and placed it on the table with a satisfied sigh. She looked quite happy to see I enjoyed it. ‘So,’ she said, turning to me while settling into the back cushion of the couch, ‘first thing’s. My girlfriend wanted to test me out in some mild bondage before we got too serious and I guess this is her way of introducing me to it. Mistress Sun runs a house of domination on the outskirts of the town I live in, and she suggested that I watch a session of hers before I agreed to become her slave. Fittingly enough, she called her business the House of the Rising Sun. Her father had done very well for himself in his overseas business, but had unfortunately passed away, leaving his. Look, we have destroyed two pirate craft so far, but we still do not know who is in charge of them – who their boss or bosses are, even why they are doing this. One would, at first, think that they (whoever they are) are doing this for material gain – credits – but they have made no demands for ransom that the President of the Alliance is aware of. There is such a volume of missing individuals that no one seems to know who the missing are, or who the dead are. It is further complicated by lists. Lucas seemed to have stars in his eyes for the pretty lady. THAT was a huge change in him.I asked, “Is Marcia coming too?”Lucas nodded, “Yes. She came up from her gatehouse apartment, saw the skimpy mode of dress, and went back to change into something briefer and sexier. She’d worn a very conservative one-piece. I’ll be curious to see what she shows up in when she reappears.”Less than a minute later, Marcia, one of my other bodyguards who often went with one of the women in my circle, appeared.