" She snorted and spoke a little louder than he thought was wise, "You are going to get killed, if you don't take care of yourself. You talk about bei...g a simple warrior; nothing about you is simple. Most warriors want to be a War Chief, you are a War Chief and you want to be a warrior. You have a lodge full of women, and most warriors can't keep a single woman that isn't tied down for the night. But at least having those women keeps out the ones that would be sneaking in during the night. I. He needs us now. He’ll need us forever. But now we’ve got to face the real question. Is he one of us? Is there an ‘us’? Donnie is sure of it, but I’ve always been a bit skeptical. She wants to talk to him about it but I’m not so sure.He might think this is a bit odd, even for us. And he did say several times last night that we were ‘too weird’. He backed off. I could tell he was afraid he had hurt our feelings when he said that. We are weird, but too weird? I don’t think so. And Andrew likes us. " "I see." "It's so much better when a womanis with me to enjoy it, not for any other reason." "That's very true." He eyed me for a while, and I thinkhe was being so straightforward to test me. I just suppressed a beam, enjoyinghis candor as much as a juicy piece of gossip. By the time we entered his homethat evening, the sun had all but lowered and the moon was out in the grayingsky. "Do you date a lot?" he asked,locking his door behind us. "Not a whole lot, like once a month." . The bullet tore into him and he fell on his face. He screamed in pain, but I ignored him: he was not going anywhere with that shattered hip.I ran to Lady Sinola to help her to her feet. As soon as I did that, she grabbed me around the waist and said, "You saved my life! I am your wife and slave forever!"Oops! I had forgotten the custom on Horurie that said that when a man rescues a woman from certain death, she had to become his wife. Dammit, now I had two wives, and I was sure that I was in.