3 – but by eighteen or nineteen her chances were good. Her initiative sub-score was even better than Nichelle’s, which explained why she’d come ...orward to talk to him. She would be an asset to the Confederacy and was definitely worth trying to hang on to for the two months or so until her birthday.He asked, “Would you prefer to stay with your father if you could?”“Of course, but he probably won’t get selected. Everyone says that concubine men mostly don’t get picked. I want to make sure I stay. She tried to kiss him, as consolation for besting him in the race, but both were breathing too hard for it to really work. They waited until they were sure their mother wasn’t coming back home because she forgot something. Then they walked to the fence where their “private entrance” was and slipped through.As they penetrated the dense forest, they began to hear noises that were foreign to ears tuned to the normal silence of their fantasy play place. Instead of going to the root cellar, which. She sat in a gleaming wheelchair that raised her head up to about the height of his mid-chest.Mossman stepped up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder."Whatcha need, Hubie? We need to get this stuff out because Ray at the WD just called and they need their truck back there in 45 minutes." A guy from the Times-Union is here, Jessie." That Bass guy? Whatever his name was?" No, he couldn't make it. They sent another reporter." Oh, well, send him back. I can't stop right now." He's right. Then, as she stepped further into the room, I saw that she was wrapped in only a towel."I really am sorry," she breathed. "But my shower isn't working. I wondered if I might use yours." She paused and glanced again to where my towel was making a poor job of covering the effect she was having on me. "When you're finished."Finding my breath and noticing how the tops of her breasts seemed to be heaving out the cover of her towel, breasts that I had long admired under jumpers and blouses, I said,.