It only depressed her more than usual, and made her feel that she was making progress in the wrong direction, that she was denying what she, on some b...sic level, knew was her true nature. Nat knew she was deluding herself. She just didn't know whether she was deluding herself in favour of, or against, her transsexuality. Possibly both. Still, some evidence would have been nice, impossible as it was. No universal scale existed for this sort of thing, as much as Nat dreamed of just knowing, being. The Vizier bent before his strength. "Very well. Follow me."Kyle's group followed the Vizier, turning right as Aaliyah followed the Chief Eunuch deeper into the apartments, the three concubines trailing after her. Aaliyah would be safe. Those three were far more deadly than they appeared.Besides, nothing will happen here. This is Aaliyah's home. And the Jann have already pledged to support me against the Marid. But he had almost lost her twice. He was never going to let her go anywhere without. After getting off, Misty was alone once more. She stepped to the button panel. She pressed a button and returned to checking her look in the smoked mirrors of the box. The elevator stopped on the twenty-third floor. She wasn’t paying close attention and stepped off. She had walked a few feet down the hall to where her room was when she noticed. These rooms were numbered twenty-one, and so on. They were twenty-threes. His floor. Charles’ room was on this floor. She scurried back to the elevator,. I was just really comfortable when I heard the boys starting up their motorcycles outside. Barley was barking at them, pleased with himself that he'd driven the strangers away finally, but I didn't think they were leaving just because of him.The door opened a minute later and Joe was looking in. I smiled at him from behind Bandy. I was still warm inside from flagging the two boys like I had and so I wasn't surprised at myself when I slipped off the bed, moving slowly and being careful not to.