][I thank you also Thantas, a chance to do what is right appeals to me greatly.] Drivas told Thantas[As I told Thellus, don’t thank me yet. This wil... be painful as it usually is though, the pain will be as negligible as I can make it.] Thantas advised Drivas.[If this works then I don’t think that will matter.] Drivas replied.Sam was floating back toward the throng of grays when Queen Triada’s thoughts came to him. [You have done much to free them and us from the clutches of IP. For that we all. “It’s hard to conceive of a way that statement could be misconstrued,” I said.“I didn’t say it like that,” Liz protested. “I said the media events that you planned were getting to be a pain in the ass. I did not say that you were.”“Oh, that’s all better then,” I said derisively.“It worked,” she said.“I know,” I said. “Did you hear about good old Lillian?”“Yeah,” Liz said, handing a phone across. “You left that at the hotel.”I didn’t take the phone and Liz put it on the blanket beside me. It. My heart nearly died on me, but I tried to remain cool."Okay. So now what?" I asked."See you next Wednesday?" she said.And so it became a thing. We met there every Wednesday for the next month. Finally we made other plans, plans to see movies together, plans to walk in the park, plans to go bike riding. She was always sneaking around, though, telling her mom she was meeting a girlfriend, or just going to study at the library or whatever.Eventually, I asked her to be my girlfriend, on a sunny. How he knew that her boyfriend wouldn’t be in her bed next to her she had no idea. But he would know. The converstaions were never pushy. He never commanded her to do anything, never raised his voice. It felt like she was being taken and led along a journey. A journey she knew she wanted to undertake but didn’t know how. It was just two weeks ago that she finally took the box and disposed of it. Her ‘bitch’ toys as he called them. The black collar with the diamond shaped stud. The pink and red.