” He grabbed her by the elbow and dragged her out of the hut. He liked it when they were afraid, the frightened ones always proved very helpful.“Y...u can start by telling us your name girl!” Yelled the first centurion as he towered over her.“M.m.my…n.n..name..is..Meena.” She stammered, hardly able to speak. The villagers looked on, they were all truly terrified by this unwelcome intrusion by so many Romans. They all knew why they had come it was only a matter of time, now here they were in. “Does the school counselor know?”We shook our heads. “The police know. We are not involving Social Services,” Charlie clarified, holding out the policeman’s business card. The headmistress turned the card over in her hands carefully, clearly completely surprised.“Anyway, if they study from home, they’ll probably only study each other,” Ms Duncan smirked, “You know, all that cross-pollination you talked about!”The headmistress straightened in her chair and tried not to smile, too. Then she. The sight has me forcing myself to stand still as I would’ve pressed myself against him hard. His gaze moves on and I can see him tracing the line of my arched neck with them. Slowly his head lowered and his lashes sweep low over his eyes so that only a slit of that incredible blue is visible. One hand releases my hand and comes up to capture my chin in a gentle but firm grip tugging down my high collar before settling there. I feel his warm breath on the underside of my chin and I bring up my. Despite all the washing, her hair had become dull, lifeless and unsatisfyingly straggly."When are you going to eat me?" she asked me later that day, chewing at her nails while watching me crawling around, hunting for rodents. She was standing as I'd ordered her to stand, with her hands high above her head, her legs a few inches apart, and standing like that, she was watching me work. "Please. You have to eat me soon or I'll be too thin, and I'm so, so hungry! Why won't you give me any meat?"I.