She waited for him to say something. When nothing happened, she looked up timidly.On Dick's face, she saw the same helpless arousal she had seen in th... eyes of the plumber boy, Frank, so many months before. Her cunt made the same throbbing response to Dick's befuddled lust as it had to Frank's. Her defense mechanisms were not there to make her retreat from the raw danger of the situation. She could not make herself feel anything but excitement in the face of the undisguised need of her. That could indicate anywhere in continental Europe west of future Russia. Roman Empire or former Roman Empire meant Latin! “How many men?” I asked in my best Latin.The girls conferred for several seconds before the one still bound to the tree answered, “Twenty-six,” her Latin infinitely better than mine.I went back and counted the bodies of the men that had bloodied my sword; there were eleven. Those eleven, plus the original sentry, the rapist, and the twelve men who fell to my bow only. That’s the guy I’ve been seeing. He’s been very patient with me.”“Does he know about me?”She nodded, “In the same way Bethany and Kara know about me. And probably the same way Jonas knew about you and Birgit.”“May I ask why?”“By the time we were at that point, I’d decided to come see you. I felt it was better to wait until I was here so as not to feel like I was either cheating or leading him on.”“That makes sense. So?”“Ask me on the 30th. Until then, I just want to make love, talk, and spend. These mentors are living examples that the calves will look up to and copy. My priestesses are brown heifers who enjoy eating the grass Mother Earth provides them in their pasture. You are the prize bull that Mother Earth expects to multiply her herd. The heifer's nature is to allow her protector to create life. You will make this temple Mother Earth's prized herd. You are a strong manor lord, Moon Mother's child, the father of multiple twins with the rarest of gifts. Do not doubt your name.