I did. Just a chaste brush. If I'd have given in fully to my emotions, I would have fallen down at the feet and worshipped this goddess. And I was wed...ed to her. "Two become one flesh," the minister had read from the old text. Under my breath I repeated the real vows from the weekend before: 'and one soul and one spirit'.Behind the partition of the community room the caterers had a spread laid out.Music? Johanna. Life WAS music. "We're doing this different," Jo announced. "Stoney and I will do. It is known that when the emperor cums, the world cums with him for each woman within a mile of the emperor will not be immune to his powerful emotions.Your mother stands at your side wearing the honorable robes of the queen mother. (A hooded cape lined with fur. Beneath the cape, the queen mother is always naked though she herself is no longer fertile.)The assembled women are arranged into several castes.The Warrior Caste: Taller strongly built women dressed in plasta-steel armor. The armor. "Yes. And then I had to spoil it all by trying to make you my slave." She smiled sadly into a face that shone with the remnants of her cunt juices. God, she thought, I know no one who eats me like she does. Why don't I feel better?"No, Angique," Ishtar said after clearing her throat. "It was me who spoiled it. I was thrilled by the idea of being your slave girl. But I am a weak-willed slut, unable to be loyal even if it is the very thing I want to be. And believe me, tendresse, I still ache to. Okay? We'll make it work."She wiped away my tears, I looked up into her eyes, and I stared right into her soul. And then with every ounce of feeling in my heart, I said, "Dawn, I love you."After such an emotional moment, there was only one thing Dawn and I wanted to do. Her irises glowed bright blue as she got up and held her hand out to me. We hurriedly grabbed our things and sprinted off hand-in-hand.Brooke and DJ were oblivious as they chatted with the five guys. We knew they'd be occupied.