"She is a sadist... but then you knew that." Did you satisfy her?" You got your money." Don't get impertinent with me, Laurel or you'll taste the whip..." Yes, Mistress," responded Laurel, her back a mass of cuts and whelps from last night."I have a question for you." Yes, Mistress." Who would you say was the most beautiful slave at the Empire Club." I think Yuki is the loveliest woman I have ever known." Besides Yuki. And who seemed to be the favorite of the customers?" Cassandra, the black. Jodi was the one who really mattered though -- short and broad shouldered, with the face of an angel and the mind of a sewer rat. The rest of us just followed whatever he did.There was Will, the biggest and oldest of us all, not very bright, but always strong and willing. Micky and Jacko were both highly respected in the school because they'd fight anybody any time. I was there because I was pretty handy with my own fists. And each of us would have followed Jodi into just about any situation.. .. unfortunate accident.”“Good, it’s as much as they deserve.”“Overall the Admirals seemed happy with my performance, considering the extreme circumstances. They accepted my request for a couple of weeks of paid leave too, so we have some downtime to look forward to.”Lorza beamed as she finished off her sandwich, her long tongue emerging to clean her fingers.“Finally I’ll have you all to myself, we have a lot of lost time to make up for.”“They seemed quite interested in you as well, asked me a. Once inside, I gave my surroundings a quick looking over. The interior of the shop looked as indecipherable as the exterior, old crap piled on old crap piled on old crappy shelves. Behind a shoddy counter, a gremlin with Coke-bottle glasses gave us a crooked-toothed grin. ‘Ms. Tasker, I presume?’ the gremlin spoke with a voice that made me think of tortured kittens. Its teeth wobbled like loose piano keys stained yellow with age. It had a hairdo like Yoda: white, sparse, and wild. Sarah.