"How doyou think I'd feel if my puppies moved around everywhere when I walkedaround? That's what bra's are for dum-dum. Now...stand still" which Idid ...s Lois checked to make sure that everything looked to be in place."Don't tuck the shirt in" she said with a hint of annoyance showing inher voice. "Girls NEVER tuck their shirts in." she admonished me, then seeing thesurprised hurt on my face, started to smile at me. "Undo your bottom 4buttons" which I hurriedly did. She then moved forward and. I promise.”“There you have it.”“She’s practically begging us, isn’t she.”“Mistress Sinclair did ask us to look after her.”“Take care of her.”“Please,” Alice interjected suddenly, feeling herself pushed slowly to the edge of what she could bare. “Please make me come. Please! I’ll do anything you ask!”“She did ask.”“I heard her too.”“Well then…”“Best get on with it then.”Alice found herself sinking to her knees, Mister Hart’s wet fingers trailing up her arm, leaving a trail of her fragrant juices. I paused in my work and looked down at my tablet. I saw her hand go to her throat, her tongue flicked out, and she gulped. She let out a small laugh and repeated a previously line, “…’Soon… soon’….”The crowd was mesmerized by Karin as she read. On the tablet, I could see all fifteen of the chairs were filled and another ten people standing. Out the store window I could just make out people pushing to get inside.Back and forth we went. Me ministering, Karin reading, pausing, getting obviously. The Great Emerald City was now the hub of the world after the borders being redrawn over the past half century. It was ugly and beautiful and dangerous and safe and exotic and familiar and hateful and loving all at once. She knew how to walk down the street so as not to attract the go-gangers, or Lone Star (or was it Knight Errant now? Who had the city awarded the police contract to?), or whoever else had some sort of nefarious intent within them.Tonight she had a not so nefarious intent within.