. fine! Perfectly fine.”“It’s not too ... big.”Duncan sighed, and sat back down in front of the demon’s desk. While I’m here, he figured, ... may as well be honest with the man - he’s just doing his job, after all. Mr. Foster smiled as Duncan started sharing his woes, and silently breathed a sigh of relief. That had been close - he hadn’t expected the boy to have so much suspicion bubbling below the surface. It had taken a lot of effort to siphon it all away, but he’d managed, and could now. To my amazement the old woman became quite angry. She reminded my mother of the many times that she had helped her. She called my mother a thankless woman and suddenly started to cry. She told my mother that she was ready to fall on her feet like a beggar. “I can’t bear to see him suffer”, she said, weeping. “That’s why I’m begging you. He could never go with an outside woman, because then somehow people will know. You live in our house. You are not an outsider. So there is no danger of anybody. So, we have to make him the ‘alpha-male’ by putting someone else beneath him. Figuratively, that is. He isn’t going to fuck you or anything.” Well, that was a relief. I guess.“So I’m going to be naked all night?” I asked. That didn’t seem that bad. I’d already figured that all of the guys would be naked at some point. Jess and Amelia exchanged a glance that I didn’t at all like.“Yes...” Jess said without elaborating. Amelia did, though.“There’s a BIT more to it than that. Now strip.”Once I was. They all took to the classes we offered and I had to work in slowly some of the details about magical abuse. Like a gun it was the intentions of the person holding the weapon that counted.The complexity of magic was explained like how we dealt with technology. Most people used a computer or an automobile but didn't know, or care to know, how they worked. Other jobs needed to be learned and this was done one step at a time. This was compared to a doctor. He or she was not born that way but.