As I pushed my cart along, I reached the last room in the corridor, took a bottle off the car and breezed unannounced into a room. I didnt think be...ore pushing aside the privacy curtains around the bed, and I soon learned why they were closed! The patient, a good-looking male around my age, was sitting up in the bed masturbating himself while looking at a pornographic magazine! While my sudden entrance briefly startled him, his reaction startled me. Well, he said, did you come to just. Did you like it?”She smiled, “Yes.” She gave me a peck on the lips and said, “Now let me up. You need to sleep, and I have chores to do.”“Is it enough for you?”“As much as you want, you can do it. I like it.”“But do you really like it?”“Well, yes. You’re one of the best. Don’t go fishing for more compliments though. You need to rest.”She rubbed between her thighs with a towel and smiled, “You certainly come the most of any of my men. You must like me.”We laughed and she cleaned me up with the. Everything. I told you, Sweetie -- I got broken in at a college gang-bang -- and I enjoyed it. I've done ... a lot. You'd be surprised." She smiled wanly. "The others have limits, I'm pretty sure -- but I don't know what they are. Fucking, sucking, anal sex ... At least one or two of the others have done it. I'm pretty sure Louise has had the advanced course." What do you want from us?" Teela asked.Beth shrugged. "Silence. Acceptance. That's probably the minimums. Not to upset the apple cart?". On the architectural web sites she found a number of references to the Triple Palace with its façade set with rubies, gold, and emeralds. She learned that the Ruby Palace was the official home of the Crown Prince, the Golden Palace housed the Emir himself, and the Emerald Palace was traditionally given as a sign of favour to one or another of the Emir's children.The country lived, and lived well, on oil exports, almost all of which were "heavy crude" which apparently was dug out of the ground.