Lucius burst into the room with a harried look. ‘She is gone,’ I added quietly. His pace slowed and he nodded as he began to straighten the bed. L...cius, my steward, my friend and the one I trusted after Alia herself. He did not speak knowing what day it was. He knew my thoughts and respected my pain. ‘Gods! Boy! The lead riders have already arrived,’ my father’s booming voice echoed louder in my head. Of course he was dressed, the sun was peaking above the horizon and the king never wasted. ”“I am not going to be treated like a cheap tart and be fucked in the back seat of a car… even a posh one.”“Well we mostly have cocktails first, there’s a bar in the car.”“A bar?”“Yes,” she grabbed a tissue and blew her nose, while her mother waited patiently for her to continue, “Yes and then he stops off at a jewelry store and buys me a little trinket.”“Is that where you got that gold bracelet from,” she said, pointing to Lucy’s wrist.”“And this ring.”“Shit you must give him a really good. He was always involved with this one girl. They ere on and off always. He would be dating her for a while and then they would break up and he would have a fling with someone else. This happened like hundreds of times while I was friends with him. When he asked me out I hoped it was different, but still had a fear that it was not going to be. I was also very new at the sex thing. So I was still a little shy, and not quite ready to show how kinky I really was. So everything with him remained very. That student, along with two others, crawled under the table. Everyone watched as the last section rose up into place. It was almost as if that section grew out of the base of the model from the audience’s perspective and everyone’s applause grew with it.A couple of minutes later, the students crawl back out and one of them gave the speaker a thumbs up. The speaker said, “And there we have it!” The audience applauded again and I joined in. I was curious what they used to hold the section in.