" I am a Mistress. I know the value and necessity of punishment. But even I am shocked by what you have shown me if it was, as you say, an unnecessary...punishment." I had failed to clean the floors to her satisfaction Miss." Was it your usual practice to be slack with your duties?" No Miss. Of course not Miss."She looked at me almost with anger. How dare I doubt her account? I smiled inwardly. I didn't doubt her but there was no sense in letting her know that."Two items still remain. I have a. Waking up in the early afternoon she looked round with a rather contented gaze, bolting upright when she felt the lukewarm liquid on her hand, which used to be ice cream. Shit! Quickly waking up she picked up the bucket and rushed to the fridge, frowning as she threw it into the freezer she quickly went to wash her hands, and flopped back onto the sofa, and simply sat there looking out the bay window into the empty flat across the road from hers. She actually knew the girl who lived there, she. As for my being here, that is dreadful, but the rules are the rules. Under the regulations, I deserve all my time here. And that includes the extra sixteen weeks which I so nearly got poor Sandra to serve. Before they put me in here I made a brief statement, saying I accepted my punishment as just and fair, and promising to be a model prisoner or face the consequences. I have never regretted or ceased to stand by a word of that!Not all the women here have influential parents who can pull. I fear though that this only buys us a little time and will not prevent the pending battle. Xtos the AI that leads the robots is determined to exterminate all of us. I want all ten of the armored AAC's manned the rest of the air cars will be of no use other than two of the new scout cars which I will put on patrol to keep watch. Maj I want you and Jake to prefect and build six large cannons. I intend to put two covering each pass and the remaining two I will place in the mountains that overlook.