Tirfil shared a land border with Kobekistan which was ill-defined on the ground, as it ran through some of the most arid and almost trackless desert o... the planet. The border was drawn formally on the map shortly after the First World War when oil was discovered beneath those deserts. A wise and far-seeing Emir had persuaded a Khan who eschewed all modernity that the line ran along a certain trade route, and as a sweetener, he allowed that the trade route was in Tirfil and not in Kobekistan,. " I was smiling when I said that. What the hell did I just say? He must've seen the regret written on my face because he was laughing. "Well thank you." He winked at me. I decided to end the awkwardness and play some music. Lights was playing. We were quiet for the rest of the trip and he finally pulled over. He got out and went to my side to open the door. I came out and I found out we were parked in front of a hotel. "I picked out the best hotel for you." He was confident and proud. "You know. “Yes that is what consumes me to the last fiber of my being. The Church of Darkness is nothing more than a vehicle to get me where I need to go. You know it all.”He spoke with such intensity and conviction; finally talk to someone who already knew. Was that her true motivation; was she after the same thing? No other explanation was possible in his mind. She had admitted to him that she had studied the same things and she it seemed she was indeed an immortal and on this quest much longer than. As long as Dominion and Ishtar focused on the two other slaves or whatever was going on outside the house, Hijiri’s mind might heal enough for her to learn to endure, and maybe they might even find a way to escape.“After cutting herself, Nayara is far too bloody to be allowed on the bedspread. Mary, you will begin by licking her clean,” Dominion ordered.“No way! I don’t want to get AIDS!”“Insolence!” Ishtar hissed. She slashed Mary across the face, her claws ripping her soft skin like paper..