I take my time finishing my meal to make sure I give them equal time. We clean up our tables and then it’s off to the shops.Having just had food on ...y mind I pull out my mobile phone while we walk and I call Rats. He’s happy to slip my party of six in, but tells me to arrive at 8:15 p.m. after the first party at a table should be finished. He does have a good laugh when he says, “What’s going on, Mate? Last week you were here with one schoolgirl, the other day with a different two, and now. She may answer that she is there to be caned but, even if her reply is inaudible as it often is, I proceed without delay to order her to prepare herself appropriately and to assume the required position. While she is doing so, I observe her bottom to assess whether the assigned punishment needs to be modified. If, for example, her bottom is rather generous then I might decide to use a thicker cane. In the presently supposed case, however, there will be no such complications. Simply take up your. ..altered... to prevent any sentiment dissuading you from carrying out your tasks.” An unsolicited shiver runs down your spine. You really didn’t like the amount of stress on “Altered”.“Know this. Twenty-four of you have been harvested from your unexceptional lives to participate in something far greater than yourselves.” Glancing around, you notice a bizarre amount of debris strewn around the grassland all around you - antique looking trinkets and childish-looking blowguns, you even spot a. Okay?" "Gale..." "Yes..." there was a tentative sense of uneasiness in Gale's comeback. "You are aware that I'll probably still be a girl when it's time for the two us to go to bed tonight, right?" "Yes. And, the reason you're bringing that up is?" "Well... I was just wondering if that was going to present a problem for you?" "I shouldn't think so... Why? Will it present one for you?" "I honestly don't know if it will or it won't... "I mean, I'm really not sure. However, I can see where it.