She could go to the Imperial City, and find out what was going on, since no one knew of her relationship to either John or Tuk. She would find Butalus... and bring him back to John and Zithrusa, and also any gossip as to the situation in The Palace.Vedeya slipped into the Imperial City in a luxurious palanquin, and it was cursorily inspected at the gate. She had the porters convey her to her mother's house, where she was made much of, especially in light of the fact that she had run away to avoid. Now you may be surprised to know that not so many weeks ago I didn't have a girlfriend, indeed the friends I had you could probably count on two fingers. So when I did things like going to the cinema I usually went by myself." I grinned. "Which is fine as far as being able to concentrate on the film and the finer qualities of its production but is not so good when I, as I always do, want discuss the films merits or otherwise afterwards." I looked around the room. "You see us guys are like that.. I started my car and followed the pick-up truck. I’m not a cop, and soon it was obvious that I followed him, but I didn’t care. He stopped in front of a run-down building, and turned off the engine. I drove by slowly and parked half a block further. I repositioned my side mirror and saw that Machoman was getting out of his truck and walked up to me. I started to sweat. I wanted to confront him, but I hadn’t the slightest idea how to do that.The guy opened the door of my car and told me to come. I watched them move about in the early morning fog. They had incredibly thin legs for such large animals. I was still wearing my tee shirt and panties.A pair of strong arms wrapped around me. "You better watch out honey, you might fall over." Paul said in my ear."Paul! You scared the hell out of me!" I looked up. The deer were bounding away. "Look, you scared the deer away." They'll come back now they found the corn. Look what I've found." He had a hand on each of my breasts. Oh lord, I.