Mrs. HendersonI had a day off at school, and I was supposed to go shopping withGrandma. Mother couldn't drive me to her because of her job. So, I hadt... take the train all by myself. But it was no big deal. I was 13, andI had travelled the same route several times before. Mom prepared mefor the trip. Grandma had instructed her to shave my legs since we wereshopping dresses and skirts. I didn't have much hair, so that wentquick. But it was funny that my first shaving was not on the. “Wow,” I said gently to myself. I unstrapped her, extended the lower part of the table, and gently let her legs stretch out below her. Still, her eyes were closed and she appeared to slumber. Tenderly, I shook her awake. And, when she finally opened her eyes ... there it was. Adoration. She looked at me the way a pet looks at a long-time master. No doubt about it ... she had fallen in love with me ... weeks before I thought it would happen. I sighed, helped her up, and held her robe while she. 'Are you serious?' She turned back to the door.'Sammi, wait.' David was jumping up from his chair. 'It's okay, I tilted the screen.''But they can hear me, they'll know I'm here.''No, I muted the microphone. I think -.' He turned back opening the screen a few inches.'Wait! What are you doing?' Sammi cried, scurrying across the room out of view of the camera, ducking down behind the bed.David laughed. 'Sammi, it's okay. They didn't see you, which is probably a good thing, because I'd have. Kamal Qumsiyeh said you were not trained to our Kobekistani ways. That will be remedied. Why do you think you are here?" My father is the Emir's new Captain of the Imperial Voyager and he said I was to come here to live and be educated, instead of going to a boarding school." I happen to be the Emir and this is my home. You are now a member of my harem and you will do exactly what I want. The Admiral has given you to me as a present on his appointment." He can't have. Nobody can give people.