Even the Therobelin part of me wasdisappointed to leave as well, for it was where he had become the personhe had always meant to be. In some small way... I was sad to leave it.Perhaps after I secured the Imperial City, I would return and have myfollowers erect a shrine here, in honor of where Therobelin and Crystaliahad become one. After several more moments, I turned my eyes away andlooked forward, resolute on my new path that could only lead to victory.When we were fifteen minutes out from the. There had been numerous times where I had watched over-protective, doting moms run around the playground looking for their little ones, only to scold them severely for being out of their sight for nano-seconds. I now started to become one of those moms.I walked around the playground looking in and around the maze of playground equipment. Through the twisty slide, "Cole?" in the sand underneath the play ship, "Cole? Are you there?" and inside the tunnel, "Cole! Where are you?"I was making a. "Only when we entered here did I begin to understand why this Thanksgiving would be unlike any other. Why essentially it needed to be here. Being greeted by Marta, Joe's beautiful betrothed, and welcomed into the embrace of this unique family began registering the purpose of our coming down here. Of course Roger and Joe not being among the greeters seemed odd. It seems they were being greeted in a much more intimate fashion. And soon my wife found a similar greeting. To put it frankly, this. ”“So is that what you are? A dominant?”“Yes, but I’m not a sadist, at least I don’t enjoy playing with a true masochist. I really don’t like inflicting that much pain on someone. It’s… well, it makes me very uncomfortable. Instead, I like playing with dominant and submissive roles. Spanking, or other corporal punishment – for me – is part of that dominant/submissive dynamic.”“Dominant/submissive… then you’re saying I’m submissive?”Erik held up his hands to forestall another reaction from.