Shelly drew the short straw last night and had to sleep with me. It just kinda happened.”She looked around until she spotted Shelly having an intens... conversation with Amy. “Cheeky girl,” she groused with an amused shake of her head. “Can I assume she’s even more besotted this morning?”“Probably,” Jeff admitted with an embarrassed grin.“Gah,” Shawna laughed. “And I suppose you enjoyed playing finger puppets with her?”Jeff rolled his head back and chuckled silently. “I can’t believe we’re. Surely most would be too ashamed to say anything for fear of public ridicule and shame. But surely there must have been one or two who were outraged enough to have risked exposure to bring justice down on these men's heads. These and similar thoughts drifted through the young blonde's head as she leaned on an elbow and looked at a tiny beam of moonlight streaming in from the outside. Her belly felt warm as she passed her hand down her right side to her belly and kneaded the soft flesh between. Before we had got to the poetry venue we had visited at leastthree or four bars but the vagueness of my memory prevents me from naming aprecise number. As we made this detour we assembled an entourage of itinerantbar flies, lounge lizards and misfits. None of who where seriously out of sortsbut all displaying peculiarities that made me question their true dispositionsand all of who had been convinced by Inke that for some reason I needed theirsupport. This group of self-modelled bohemians,. (I speak here of the figurative. Henceforth, I shall cover the literal.) A little sympathy for them or an insult to her would entice them to spew forth more information than I thought possible.I was able to determine that the Prince had ordered all his soldiers and guards to search for me almost prior to the twelfth chime of the great clock, even going with his most prized squadron personally. Upon his leaving, his chief steward took it upon himself to ask his prince what he wished done with.