He told us it was a great opportunity for him. We were all devastated. Mom could see it in our faces."John, you can't make the kids move again. James ...s in his final year of high school and has a chance to get a scholarship. Ann and Marie are just starting high school and have all their new friends here. I'm not going to let you take that away from them. We made a promise to them the last time we moved."After that there was a lot of arguing back and forth. The problem was, dad only worried. She was now naked."You're entered in the calf roping competition," the man told her."But I don't know anything about roping," Cat protested. "I don't even know how to ride a horse." You won't need to. You're the calf." Huh?" When you enter the arena, go to the center and stand in the chalk circle. When the bell rings, run," her keeper (as Cat had come to think of him) said.Cat was thrust into the arena. The door closed behind her. The stands were filled. The audience was mostly men, but there. It was a formidable all-around short distance spaceship, just a little bigger than the average D-30. It had good shields, but neither the Plutonium slug accelerator nor the Paralysator and Tech Stop projectors would do him much good against an enemy warship of this size.The Kermac wasn’t alone. There was a Karthanian armed trader with a jettisoned core, dead in space. His sensors also identified a small, ugly Tullerman.The Tullerman or more likely its passengers were the intended target of the. For tickling your captive? Nipple clamps. Ball gag. The next to last item was a soft cat o nine tails meant to sting rather than mar the flesh. Bad, bad Luke. I wondered what Rita would think if she found this stuff.The last item was an envelope. I opened the envelope to find a stack of Polaroid pictures. I looked at them one after another, my surprise mounting with each photo. The first several were of a slightly younger nude Rita manacled to the bed. Each photo progressed 'the game' a step.