Presently, their eyes closed and they drifted off. It was very hard to sleep underwater under any circumstances, and they were exhausted. The sleep wa... deep and dreamless, so when they woke several hours later, it seemed as though no time had passed at all but for the sun having moved to the other horizon. Zethriel stroked Keria's hair and whispered, "I love you, Keria," trying out the sounds. She stirred, slower to wake. A film of salt covered their bodies, but Zethriel felt stronger. Their. ” He tugged and pushed on the plug and she gasped loudly, chanting her litany of 'fuck' again. “Green, Sir, green. Please, more, Sir!” she begged, clutching at the edge. The vibrator came back, and she moaned, biting her lip and clenching her hands to remain in control. Only she wasn't in control. He was, and that thought had her teetering again. Her breaths became pants, her body refusing to relax. She trembled everywhere and she keened a steady humming sound. The vibrator went away and she. "I confronted him, and he didn't deny it. And then ... he showed me the basement." The dungeon." Alistair's expression was grim, and Nathaniel sighed."Yes. I didn't know ... at first I didn't know what was down there. Having figured out that I was unlikely to approve of his methods, he tricked me into going down there saying he'd found something I needed to see. He gave me a tour, showing me all of his prisoners – in cages, being tortured, being raped by his soldiers – and then he locked me in. It was Easter Sunday - it was hard to believe so much had changed since Thursday night. The wind was now south-easterly. We’d be going nowhere under sail that day, even if we’d wanted to.A couple of barges had left on the rising tide, others had been gone since Friday, but as it was a holiday, people were setting up on the quay; someone demonstrating and selling decorative knot-work, various displays of the organisations that ran classic boats, some just for profit (actually, there’s little or.