Do you? I was going to put you to bed and hope you slept the booze off and forgot how fucking nuts you had been acting." Again I didn't think to menti...n that I had actually enjoyed the thought of fucking my mother, another notch in my male bravado belt, and gave in to her offers.She had brought up her hands half ways through my emotionally destructive outburst but suddenly let one drop and reached toward me. It was almost as an offer of peace, an atonement of her own emotional outburst that she. She'd betrayed them.Another shock came a few minutes later when there was a stir among the Hostigi as two more soldiers and some others arrived at the camp. The others were teenage girls, four of them, obviously with Tuck. Two of them seemed to be in shock, one seemed to be coping and the last seemed to be in angry denial.Tanda contemplated her belt, where she kept the silver hair piece/communicator. Her orders in this sort of situation were clear: report, and then kill them. Or, if that didn't. Some days I will use the whip. Today you will be caned. It will never be up to you, Veronika. It will always be my decision. And from now on, address me as Mistress. Understand?’ ‘Yes, Mistress,’ I answer. She is looking at me very sternly and she flexes that cane with her hands. My fingers are working faster and faster, I’m breathing hard but need to know: ‘Will the cane hurt very bad?’ ‘The cane is the worst, Veronika. That’s what they use to thrash criminals in countries like Singapore or. She couldn't breathe. Opening her eyes, she discovered she was in a tank of bluish water. The surface was only a little ways above her, so she thrashed anxiously upward, thrusting her head up above the water.'Where am I?' she thought, still lost in the ancient dream of her pervious life. 'This isn't the lake – I'm in a vat – a restoration tank! I must've been seriously injured in that crash.'Then she was too busy choking and coughing the liquid nutrients out of her lungs to think about.