After I got off work, I snuck up to his room. He asked me to undress and foldmy clothes and put them in the chest of drawers. I was happy and excited ...nd hetold me to stand in front of him so he could look me over.He criticized practically everything about me. My teeth needed straighening, mytoenails weren't trimmed, one breast was larger than the other, my knees weretoo close together, etc. I was so humiliated and felt so exposed. He told meto come over to him, I thought he was going to kiss. Amy smiled for her bad timing – she wanted to tell him thanks for the idea of the bus, and for the trip. They weren’t a couple by any means – in fact, Alex had a girlfriend – but thanks to the fact that Alex and his girlfriend were open, Amy and Alex had made out a couple of times.Amy had her suspicions when Alex had asked her to go on an adventure with him a week or so ago, and figured he was looking to finally get into her pants. Of course, he had wanted to for a while, but Amy really enjoyed. I talked to him but I was not sure ifhe understood me. Mostly he felt and pressed my hands. It wasalmost like a very deep hand massage. He wrote some words andletters I could not understand on a note and gave it to me andpointed me back into the store front. I gave the note to the oldlady and she went to work pulling various yucky dried things outof bottles and cans and placing them in a ceramic bowl. She thenground it into a mix that looked like tea leaves when it wasdone. She put it in a jar. I nodded to a couple of men looking around while talking quietly.The king had a new tax collector that was bringing in a lot of men. He had ordered all his soldiers to return to the Keep. Every duke, earl and baron were required to send more. Of course the gossip was the nobles were not doing assemblies. I turned when Cynthia stepped out and held out my hand while she clutching a half dozen dresses.She slipped her hand into mine and we started back to the toy shop. I slowed when I saw the six.