She lay on the bed as peaceful as the dead. In her state she did not even seem to feel me touch and feel the coldness. Alina’s skin was like ice. I ...elt for a pulse and felt one that barely registered. A chill down my spine as all the pieces fell into place. Producing the stake I prepared to stab it into her heart, but when the moment came I couldn’t do it. I tried to force myself but as much as I tried I still remembered that this was the same creature I spent some much time with. Looking at. The ‘a’ is a little different for most English-speakers. It’s not spoken with the ‘a’ sounding flat as in ‘ant’ and it’s not as round as the way that a lot of North Americans now pronounce ‘aunt’ as in ‘ont’. It’s about halfway in between. Yeah. Have fun with it. The ‘e’ at the end is sounded, so it’s something like Tahnteh. Hans-Joachim will be fun to get right. Hans is the same ‘a’ sound, not flat as in ‘hands’. ‘Joachim’ is like ‘Yo-ak-heem, but the ‘k’ is made as a very soft sound right at. She still had small trickles of blood leading from her nipples and her freshly fucked cunt, so he walked her to the hose. Making sure the temperature was comfortable, he turned on the water and joined her under the stream. He cleaned her gently, and then cleaned himself. After they were dressed, he pulled her into his arms. How do you feel, Aglaeca? Be honest. She smiled as her blue eyes met his dark ones. Amazing, Father. That was better than I had ever imagined. He ran his hand down her back. ."He waved me off, and my jaw snapped shut. Keep quiet, idiot, I told myself."No, hold on," he said. "What I asked for was just busy work, a punishment. What I got was a lesson of my own." Sir?" Eddie Whitehead, here, prob'ly helped steer you in this direction, Sean." He glanced over at Eddie, and then shifted back to me. "Hell, I'm just a simple ol' boy. I see somethin' in my way, I either move it or I get around it however I can. Eddie's much more sly than I could ever hope to be." Pick dug.