“I don’t know.” “You don’t know?” “No. I honestly don’t know what the word ‘normal’ means. If you mean ‘normal’ for a ...anilla person, I’d say no, it’s not normal. If you asked if it’s normal for a submissive, I’d say it was completely normal. So it depends on your perspective, not mine.” “How do I know if I’m a submissive?” “That is an excellent question.” “Thank you, Sir,” typed Elaine, smiling at her words. It was getting easier to call Gary, ‘Sir’. She hardly even noticed. Then the Abbess rubbed soothing ointment over the burns and tightly wrapped them in clean cloths.“There,” she said, “that is all I can do for now. But these cloths will require to be changed regularly and to enable the hands to heal they will need access to the air every day. For at least a week I believe you will need to remain here in the infirmary, where we can make sure this is done properly.”She shooed the man’s companions out, telling them to inform the blacksmith and the young man’s. “You remember.”“I ... Geneive ... how do you... ?” I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to ask. I glanced up in the sky to see if there was a hawk flying out there someplace but nothing appeared.She pulled away from me and said, “I’m sorry.”“Nothing to be sorry about, Geneive. I just come out here when I can and give a flower to this poor girl who had it hard back when Wyoming was just becoming a state.”“But you remember her. You remembered her and found her. You wouldn’t believe how long it took. Neither was Mr. Sokolov, by the way. Mr. Orlov fired me from the hardware store back home because of Clarissa, Robby, and Lee.”“Wow; I didn’t know that!”“Most people don’t. It’s complicated, but the end result was that Mr. Orlov complained about my friendship with them to the bishop. Clarissa and I went to talk to the bishop about it, and after careful consideration, he agreed that I was handling it in a properly Christian manner.”“So like with your sister?”“I suppose so, in terms of what I was.