”Dennis nodded, following behind her as she began to walk again.“So, where are we going ... Regent?” He had almost let slip your majesty, and th...t was the impression that she gave him. She was so regal and refined in comparison to many of the more brutish Borealans that he had met thus far, radiating an air of sophistication and poise that befitted her station. He reminded himself that she was, in fact, the Matriarch of the polar region. She was a queen if ever there was one, but the title of. When she started to slow, Pepper started to rub her breasts through the silky material of her nightie and he didn’t have to initiate a thing. She spread her legs and wrapped them around his ass and pulled him into her and he slid in all the way without pause. ‘I was sure you were a virgin.’ ‘I am—I was.’ ‘I didn’t feel any cherry popping.’ ‘Me either, but I ain’t ever done this before.’ ‘Well, I have, but never with a virgin, so what do I know. Or care. That’s your business.’ This feels even. ” He grabbed a cold drink from the fridge and sat back on the sofa.It wasn’t long before he heard the sound of keys in the lock and the door opening.“I’m back,” called Elissa up the stairs. “Stay in the living room for me and close the door.”“Hey baby, yeah okay,” Mordred called back. He got up and closed the living room door and sat back on the sofa. “Must have bought me a present,” he thought. He heard Elissa go into the bedroom and the door close. The sound of bags rustling and giggling. He tried to make his points with reason and intellect, never raising his voice. She stomped her foot, crossed her arms across her breasts and held her ground with growling, yelling and sun-blasted stubbornness. Maybe it was all of the death and loss he found surrounding him, but he acquiesced quickly and gathered a few volunteers. Thus at dawn Yakhir found himself inside the Shaheen compound wrapping the rank bodies or their parts in sheets from the beds and closets, and loading the bodies onto.