I can hear him moving behind me, gathering something from the rack. Is it a cane? A whip? My body trembles again, and I suppress another whimper as I ...ear him approach. Then, I feel him pull my shirt away at the small of my back, followed by the touch of cold steel on my skin."You are covered in their cum, Pet. Your clothes are soaked in it," he says as I hear the sound of shears cutting though the baby-blue cloth. "I'm going to cut them away, and then I will cleanse your body."I say nothing as. The primary function of the three lower level will be to consolidate the ideas. I see this consolidation as forwarding a single idea to the next higher level of the tier, when the residents submit identical ideas. Since the central committee will be pulling everything together and doing the final summarization of the ideas, I think of this committee as the Summary Committee, but Central Committee would also be a good name for it.“Overall, the tiered-committee structure is large and a little. However, when it comes to the ownership of such works, the line between mine and thine tends to disappear quite rapidly. Which was how I got into this predicament in the first place.The Brotherhood of the Crystal Flame--well, they're one of the more powerful mage schools around, and they've been around for a while. A long, several-thousand-years-and-counting while. More than a few minor deities and powers of magic and wizardry were rumored to have started their mortal lives as Crystal Flame. As i finished the stretch, he asked me if i could help him out with his training. I was in no rush, so i said yes. He was training in Greco-Roman wrestling and needed a partner to practice some takedowns. I was familiar with the basics of the wrestling style from high school, so it was cool. My first hint of something unusual was when he suggested we train as they did in the ancient days --- naked! Now i'm comfortable enough around men that i don't feel intimidated by naked men or being naked.