I still feltwary on our outings but Maria needed no persuasion to go along withJoannina on her little visits to the bazaars or merchants or to visit t...her daughters and friends. Joannina just described us as the daughters ofan old friend in Constantinople who had come to visit.We had to be fairly careful. Mark Palekaris' rule was not unpopular atfirst, but he began to lose favour with the Genorians when he maderegulations 'to preserve public morals' as Joannina said. This involvedshutting. “I truly, deeply love you. That is why I did all those things with you.” “Your father hasn’t touched me in ages. And I’ve been noticing how you’ve looked at me around the house. I been hearing you jack off for ages. You seemed so sad, not having a girl next to you, I wanted to help us both!” She kept explaining things to me in a way that made my heart break. “When we had sex, I though you finally wanted me,” she continued. “You said you loved fucking me. But what was I thinking? Your right,. He texted her, but she didn't reply. He then called her, but, she didn't answer. "Lets go up to the room and check on her", I said. We headed up to their room and found his wife wrapped in a towel sitting on the bed. She looked happy to see us. She began talking and it became apparent why she hadn't called us. Instead of putting on some sexy lingerie, she instead had showered and then started drinking Jack Daniel's straight from the bottle. She was now very drunk and slurring her words. "This. I've just been thinking of dark things: death, rebirth, the pain involved in the process and the chances all my girls may not be able to cross over with me. It's rather unsettling." Well, don't think so much about the afterlife then," Winona insisted, turning away and lying against him with her head resting on his chest, staring up at the morning light streaming in the window. "My people have been communing with our people's spirits for hundreds of years, and we don't get so dark about it..