However, you are trying this at a one-step remove. You never controlled Lansing’ or Solana’ concubines. They controlled them, and now you control ...olana, and later today, Lansing. The farther the degree of isolation the less control you possess.”“How far out can the control get? If I control Lansing, and he got his crystal from somebody else, do I control those concubines, as well?”“You might get a twinge of control, but nothing more than that. For all practical purposes, they are independent. Bill wanted to scream but apparently was too shocked to do so.When he tried to pull away his right hand, Linda grabbed his wrist withher left, her nails digging in his flesh."So," she said with a diabolic undertone which Bill couldn?t even makeout as her voice "already wanting to stop, do we?" she said."I..I..I mean you!" Bill?s vocal cords abandoned him again. He found thatshe was freakishly strong and had grabbed his left arm also, holding himin place."Speechless, are we?" Linda said in what. I need a lover, not just a heartless master. So get this damn collar off me, and these cuffs, and I'll just go."She would have simply walked out while he was at work, never to return, but she couldn't leave in her current condition. For a start, he always locked his front door, and it needed a key to be opened even from the inside. Then there was her lack of any real clothes. It had been months since she'd last worn something she could be seen wearing in public.Most importantly, there were her. ..with them...with them I've always been a gentleman but...it's not all the time...but...around Christmas they really go...they really show..." and he'd fallen asleep.The next morning he'd stared at me across his bowl of cereal at the cafeteria table and said "I'm serious man, you should come home for Christmas with me, my parents would love to meet you..." with no further mention of the neighbor girls, but the promise still there lingering. I agreed."So..." this was the first time I was.