If they find out, they would tease me like crazy!" "You know, honey, the exact same thing happened to me in high school. I know how you feel. I dated ...n older guy, and I didn't have a lot of experience at the time. He blabbed to his guy friends, and it made me very uncomfortable for the rest of the entire year. I definitely don't want you to have to go through that." "OK, so I was wondering Mom, do you think you can help me?" "Well, I'm not sure how I can help. What do you want me to do?" "Can. More attendants were already in the arena, setting up the tilts, the wooden barrier that separated the horses as the Knights rode towards each other, lances levelled.But first they paraded from their ‘camp’ next to us, to the arena, followed by the ‘Ladies’. Laura, Tricia and Mirella were enjoying themselves, the Knights all trying to gain their attention, each wanted to get one of the ‘Ladies’ to tie a silk to his lance, a favour to be rewarded if he won. Of course there were a lot of comments. Vyera is an adult name and you are a slave, so we need something else." None of this makes any sense but perhaps it is the least absurd feature of my life here. "We will call you Vyerochka, which is the child's version of Vyera, like 'little Vyera' do you see?"I'm now beyond mere anger at the patronising way she is speaking to me. How dare she talki to me this way, How dare she say I'm no more than a child. I should be back at work, writing my PhD. She's talking to me as if I was at Primary. "Ok, Tusk, this is the group. I'm Alex, and I'm the leader. This is Rick, he's my brother, and the second in command. This is Alice, my sister, and the group magician. This is Rapley, he is the scout, potions expert and medic." Rapley grunted with a nod, acting just like the orc before him. Alice quickly turned and stalked back to the tent. Rick pocked the orc with a dagger, right in the cheek. Our mark, to see if a warrior is all he says. The orc raised an eyebrow, but didn't show any other.