That was a pretty poor performance." Then to Sapphire he went on, "Get Willy to give her a dozen good ones when she has settled in. I'll see her after...ards." I said her white bum would be a different colour later," the women who made the earlier remark commented to no one in particular."I wasn't even supposed to start my slavery until I set foot on Zamarabean soil. That's what the contract said," I wailed to Sapphire."I know," she said quietly, "I guess his majesty took that figuratively. The. I really do. But I'm not . . . not a placeholder, not someone you can go to when it's convenient." "I never said that!" he snapped. His gray eyes blazed with lightning. "That's the problem!" she returned, now angry herself. "You never said anything!" x-x-x-x "Give my ticket to someone else." Lani didn't look up from her computer. She held the piece of paper out to Dee, who pointedly crossed her arms over her chest and refused to take it. "You still care," said Dee. "So what?" said Lani. "I. I’ll then take you on a couple of test flights so to speak and after that, you should be good,” Lee said.Aeron didn’t hesitate. With Lee’s help, he opened a link to her. She explained what he had to do. Then had him take her somewhere in the palace he knew well. Aeron thought of where he wanted to go and blinked.He was delighted it had worked. Lee had him go to two other places so that he went a little further each time. Aeron had no problems bringing them home. “This is a wonderful gift, Lee.. I didn’t want Felice to know, because as far as I knew she was not party to what went on. Silly me, with a couple of blabber mouths like Ruth and Diana that was a faint hope.I was sitting alone in the office when a car drew up, and out got Miss Forsyth, Annette has I had discovered.I opened the door for her and asked her in. She seemed rather out of sorts and a little tongue tied so I sat her down and gave her a mug of coffee. With a little something to keep out the winter chill added.“You’ve.