I can't stop myself; it hurtsso much. And yet...And then -"Your thoughts were particularly wicked and disgusting this week, so youget an extra stroke....Here it comes!" Swish! Thwack! Right across bothcheeks, on top of existing weals"Eeaagh! Thirteen (sob)! Th-thank you, (sniff) D-daddy." Stand up, Lillian."Slowly, painfully, I push myself upright. I bend down to pull my knickersback up. I gasp - ooh! - as the cotton settles across my burning bottom. Ismooth the back of my gymslip back down. Then. He found two robbers in a small depression. His knife slid into the neck of one as his sword chopped the other. Neither man had time to make a sound. He left them to the buzzards.Knowing that the guards below could not scale the heights, the men had arrayed themselves along the canyon rim trying to cover the most area. That left each man alone. Ariston snuck up behind hills man after hills man, leaving each to drain his lifeblood into the stones.He sensed the last group, those who would be the. We both really enjoyed the first act. To start with it was hard not to keep glancing over at the Royal Box, but soon I got engrossed in the action on stage and didn't look over again until the interval. The Royal party had snacks and drinks in their box too, but I'm sure they can't have been as good as ours. There were all sorts of little nibbly things I didn't recognise, although I identified the smoked salmon and caviar. It was all delicious - as was the champagne, in proper crystal glasses. The time flew by and all too soon I had to change back into lookinglike a boy. I hated taking off the dress, but I had to otherwise Iwould have been caught out and be in trouble. I knew that my mummywould not like my being dressed as a girl and Sarah would have beentold off too.So it was that I was back home and in my room, feeling all the worsefor not being able to look and feel like a girl for longer than anhour. I should have been pleased at having the opportunity of feelingand looking like.