You mean preserving your rule of the Imperium, and to the hells with everything else!Z'haas folded his arms. "Do not delay in answering me, Overlord,"...he said, speaking the title as if it were an epithet. "I take that to mean you are attempting to contrive a convincing lie." Great gods, but you are paranoid!" Gronnus finally blurted. When he saw the anger start to blaze in Z'haas eyes, he rushed with his next statement, stumbling over some of the words in his haste to put the ill-conceived. "Now," Peter barked. Ruiz tried to stand but her legs wouldn't support her. She reached an arm forward and started crawling the ten feet that would get her to Peter. He watched her crawl a few feet then a smile came across his face. She wasn't crawling because she wanted to. She was crawling because she had to."Stand up, Ruiz." Yes, Sir," she whispered. She leaned back on her heels, planted her palms on the floor and tried to push herself up but it was no use. She fell sideways and rolled on. " Why not? Who would know? Doesn't really matter though, you've been a bad girl and you know what happens when you're bad. You are to be punished for each day you didn't wear it and according to John, that's been 3 days...", he said with an air of authority - cool and calm.Linda looked at him. How could he know? How could John know? But looking at his face she knew that they had already talked about this and that she was going to be punished. The thought sent a delicious shiver down her spine.. 'I guess it's something,' she thought to herself."You okay with the cafeteria?" Beats just having milk, which is what I would have had in thedaycare," Holly told her honestly.She gave her a hug and felt her heart tear more as she felt terribleonce again. Ivy walked towards the cafeteria and soon the two of themwere eating some more stir-fry together.I WAS SO glad to see Ivy when she came for me! As pissed off as I wasat her... it really did beat just drinking a bottle of milk for lunch!In the.