The afternoon light had begun to wane when I saw Julie take Wyrd aside near the healing tent. It didn’t seem strange to me at the time, but Julie mu...t have molded the discussion to counsel the Princess on the advantages of an alignment of Houses. When they were done, the two women kissed each other’s cheeks and Julie went into the healing tent. Wyrd walked over to me.“Your mind is distant,” Wyrd said, which pulled me from my thoughts. “Are you worried the Raiders will return?”“No, they have. He thought he had heard somebody move as he entered but wasn't sure. As he neared the area that had been set up as living quarters he saw a young man with new style goatee come out of the shadows. So this is Ronny he thought. That beatnik type goatee would fit his ego, George thought.He quickly glanced around and saw that there were two couches fairly new even though they didn't go together and a recliner with two other smaller chairs. Carpeting covered the floor in this area, again nice but. ’ ‘You may learn to tame Enjine’s tongue, but min- oh stars and moon stop, stop that, stop-‘ His teeth bit gently into the side of my neck, just where it meets the shoulder, and his hands massaged my breasts, roughly. My nipples, already erect from the cool wind, wrote pleas and invitations across his palms. Languidness flooded me, and my eyelids nearly closed. I could whisper stop from core rise to moonset, but he’d hear the shivers of my skin and the fluttering of my eyelashes and that. When you get back to your mistress' rooms, tidy that hem up.Understand?" Yes, Master." Her answer was firm and clear, a tone of voice herterrified mistress had never heard from her. The hard eyes of Armand ofTellus swung back to the shivering heap of soiled robes on the floor."Lady Maretha." Lila's voice was quiet but it gained her immediateattention. Lila solicitiously offered her a hand up which she took buteven though the veils she would not meet Lila's steady gaze, the eyes ofa Gorean.