" Are you saying you remember what happened before you got struck by lightning?" asked Inez."No. I don't remember a thing. But at the same time, I did...'t have amnesia, either." That doesn't seem to make sense, Pat," commented Evie. "What really happened, then?"I took a deep breath. Here went nothing."First of all, I want to repeat what I said earlier, that you both need to open your minds as far as you can. The lightning strike was part of an event that I still can't comprehend. Before that, I. Noah looked to the window, hearing metal striking metal.“I think someone is fighting outside.”“Oh, it’s just the Red Revelry,” Bella mumbled between slobbers.“Red Revelry?”She began stroking him to free her mouth for talking. “That’s what they call it. It happens in the nights leading up to Knight’s Day; applicants to the academy going out into the streets and fighting under the cover of darkness. They’ll talk about it down in the bar, bragging about how they get bored waiting for enrollment. "It was last month, on a Saturday, and I wasstaying with Mistress Amanda while you were visiting Master at his beachhouse. Mistress Amanda is a young professional woman and owns two sissieswho are very young themselves. I believe Pansy is twenty-two and Fifi isyounger than that, I think." This is a woman who has invested well!" I said laughing."Mistress Amanda had only recently locked them in chastity cages a monthearlier because she expected they were playing with their little sissyclits. At that point, I didn’t understand why. Then again, I never truly understood my daughter.Jasmin breezed into university. She had an intimidating intellect and had her choice of universities. Sia put in enough effort to be accepted, no more, and even that reluctantly. She only applied herself when she understood how important it was to me. They attended the University of St. Paul. Jasmin graduated with honors, completed her Masters, and was now in her first year of her PhD in Applied.