“Tokko’d picked up an injury dealing with a rogue member so just happened to turn up when Healer Morano arrived,” Hiqua explained. “I don’t ...hink she was too impressed, but, he’s hands off now.”“Good, last thing we need is him being scared off.”“Unlikely, unless he’s like you and goes wandering,” she nodded.“I like new experiences,” I chuckled. “Plus there aren’t many things or people here for me to worry about.”“Yes, you frightened Cassire the first time you showed up here to clean the place.. More." From now on, I'm no longer Martha Jane. I'm Martha. I'm not a teenage doll and not a kitten and not a Southern belle, and I'm twenty-one years old. Not long from now I'll be a professional and I'll dress like a professional, not like a schoolgirl. I want everyone to call me Martha from now on. I'll use that name on my resume's and checks and on everything I sign. And I'll insist on Martha from others. But from you, Steven--I don't want to demand, I want to ask... will you call me Martha. Take this chain and lock it around your neck with this small,insignificant lock."With that she pulled out a bit of black chain with links about a half inchin length. On the end of the chain was a small luggage type lock."Since you will have to ask me to unlock it, and as I'm not giving you thekey, that gives me power over you. It's a small token of power, true. Youcan always go to the hardware store for cutters. But that's a hassle andwho knows it could prove embarrassing. So as I say, it's. One fine morning Ramesh was powdering grains (during marriages in Andhra they soak rice in water and then powder them for making some kind of namkeen). I was sitting in that premises and I was observing him, I went to him and asked you are powdering the grains very well from where did you learn this, in a very light manner, he replied that this is a not big deal to me since I had done this for many ceremonies.After some time we went to the storeroom to get some essential things, suddenly Ramesh.