The major-domo banged the end of his mace on the floor, and all might rise."We will eat now and discuss business later," the Emir, may he live for eve..., ordered the general throng of people, simply because he was hungry.Unbeknownst to him, this was a magnificent gesture which many of them mistakenly thought to be a master stroke designed to prove to them that this was a man who was not a fool. At a stroke he had put every other man in the room in his debt. Food was brought and all partook.. I nodded, “And ABBA. Especially ABBA.”“Ugh!” she grunted, with an expression of disgust. “Siouxsie and the Banshees play really cool experimental music. I got turned on to them by this kid from London who went to our school. I was a Freshman and he was a Senior, so it was like four years ago. He dressed sort of like I do now and everyone thought he was weird. I thought he was cool, so I got to talking to him. He’d been into punk rock when he was in whatever they call elementary school over in. ” Curious, Mike said, “OK….” “If you want to see it, then both of you need to take off all your clothes and sit on the bed.” We both responded, “What?” “Please!” Michelle pleaded. Mike and I looked at one another and started to strip down naked. We smiled and laughed a little in the process. It had been a couple weeks since I had seen Mike naked. He was already bigger than I in every aspect, but tonight he just looked enormous. It looked like he had been working out. His muscles seemed larger. Sure it might seem soft upon touch, a human would be hard pressed to know the difference. The problem was that Harreden could instinctively harden themselves while in danger. Even when caught by surprise they would hear the report of a gun firing in time to prepare themselves automatically. Theoretically she could choose to override that instinct, but what Harreden in their right mind would want to be shot and be injured like a human would?Impatient to find out why they planned to attack her.