My name is Rachael and I was a Grammar School pupil in the days before an over protective educational system and equally interfering European politica... system deemed it unhealthy for teenagers of either sex to be subjected to corporal punishment. In my schooldays we expected to run the gauntlet on occasion with authority so to speak, and if sometimes we were caught out, and had to suffer the consequences?...........Well, that was an acceptable risk that one took.My school was a ‘single sex’. "Naw, I just rented a car, I'm not used to clients springing for limos. Jesus, Nick, have you come up in the world or what? Anyhow, maybe it'll help with the bad news I'm bringing." Bad news?" What the hell could he be talking about?"Yeah, I'm afraid Schaunard"—the La Boheme role he'd been lining up for me just before everything broke loose—"isn't available any more. They told me they couldn't wait any longer." He looked appropriately mournful, but a glint in his eye told me this was. " It's perfect. I'll take the couch though, or we can share the bed."I had a smile on my face, and I was hoping that I didn't cross the line with that comment. He smiled back and said, "We will see." You know, back in Washington I thought you were gay because you freaked out when we kissed that one time. Now, you're acting weird about potentially sharing a bed. Are you?" No, and don't accuse me of that again. You were a minor in Washington, I wasn't. As for this, I never slept with anyone. But the truth is she only wanted to see you fall in a faraway land. Rumors reached you that she recently had acquired a lover that she wanted to see in the throne over you but because of the overwhelming popularity you earned in the Germanic Wars, she wasn't able to carry out her plan. Since then she has tried to avoid you and still remains in contact with her lover, Marcus. No doubt they still plan to dispose of you. She usually finds herself in the company of her slave Nairobi in the library.