"Tell me about the roles I've played on that stage." You defy conventional style and wear your sleek hair in a bun, which on another woman would be do...dy. You make the look stylish, intriguing, even sexy. In one fantasy, I removed the pins in your hair, used my fingers as a brush and let it fall down your back, or over your soft shoulders, or across your bare breasts." I moved next to her, reached and removed one pin from her hair. "Sometimes my fantasies have a beginning, a middle, and an end.. . but we would also be willing to offer the Joining to her.”“Since Seranni is not an experienced fighter, I suppose this is your way of forcing me to become a Warden?” Velanna snapped. I could see hurt, resentment, but also fear in her eyes. She thinks we’ll let Seranni die if she refuses.I sighed again. “It’s an offer, not a demand. Your skills would be useful, but you have the option to leave. We thought you might want to stay together. Arl Nathaniel,” I refused to call him Arl Howe, “would. Once done with the cheese and tea she tucked herself into the wall opposite me and began to talk. Her voice was soft and warm. She spoke slowly and with an inherent sweetness that made me yearn for each and every word that she uttered. She told me that in the course of her studies, She had in a fashion learnt to understand people. She knew about men who carried guns and generally didn’t like them. She liked hobby hunters even lesser. I apparently didn’t seem to act like any criminal She had. I finally found one guy that she had dated that I knew, Jerry Hansen, one of our strong safeties. I asked why he broke up with her or was it the other way around."Tank, she and I had a great time for a while, a couple of months, but then it seemed that she and I were into different things. I wanted a more long term relationship and she didn't so we broke up. I guess we decided that we were just not right for each other, but I wish you luck." That was it, he never told me the real reason they.