"There's a damn good reason why Michelle isn't a trip leader, you know about that, but I thought real hard about letting Crystal lead this trip and ha...e Michelle back her up so I could stay back with Louise. But we'd have had to set it up Saturday, and Louise talked me out of it; she says she doesn't feel that bad, and I might as well take this trip. Now I wish I'd gone ahead and done it." Wouldn't have worked anyway," Scooter shrugged. "I'm still not qualified as a boatman with the insurance. ”“Not sure that rightly matters,” I say and am about to further my case but a loud howling interrupts us all.We turn in unison, towards the sound emanating from up the street, at the edge of town where a group of silhouettes has just gathered. We can’t see their faces, or their features, as they’re standing some hundred feet off in the foggy darkness, but I know they’re my demon corpses by the way they carry themselves and how they struggle to stay upright.“Are those your creatures from the. "You will have to take that up with the people who are involved I'm just the landlord," I said."We both know that isn't true," she said."Wilson tells me you did some research on me?" She started to object but I held my hand up. "I just want you to know, I'm not as bad as they say. I'm ten times fucking worse. Now I have told you in the nicest way I can. If you have any brains at all you will take no for an answer." I informed her.I walked away from her, then called the Rum Runner Hotel. "Hi. .. '"'Get your ass over here. Is ten enough? Or does my naughty girl need twenty tonight?'"Etc. Etc."It should be said that such situations are much easier when you have a compliant submissive who, for some strange but delightful reason, actually likes getting spanked."But of course, one doesn't need to be 'a Dominant' to deliver a spanking. And one doesn't need to be 'a Submissive' to receive one."Or to like it."And that's because 'a spanking isn't always delivered as a punishment'."And that.