I spent most of the time with the boys doing science and math and the girls resented it. I never tried to attract the boys, but they seemed to be attr...cted to me. My shrink says I give off some sort of an animal magnetism. I’ve had enough studies of human behavior, so I understand what she was saying, but it’s nothing I do actively. Throughout my life, it seems I attract men that only have one interest, and most women resent me because their men notice me. During college I decided if I might as. I had just turned f******n, and he was a good sixteen himself. We hadn't seen each other in a couple of weeks, since scouts camp where he was my patrol leader. We did some small talk when he told me about his brother's porn stash that we should check out, and that his folks happened to be out for the day, as was his brother.We got to his place, sat at the table in the kitchen. He left and came back almost right away holding a briefcase: that was the stash! We started leafing through the mags;. You did it on leather night. As I recall, that night it was your idea.” Nina could tell that Gretchen wasn’t going to back down, and as a slave she had no choice. She was, after all, Gretchen’s full-time slave. She took a large gulp of her wine, set the glass down and started to move out of the booth.“Oh, there’s one other thing,” said Gretchen. Nina swung her head to look at her, afraid of what the ‘one other thing’ might be. “Leave your clothes. You can keep your stockings. If you can’t dance. "The fire had died to an orange glow. They leaned forward, intent on his words as his thoughts turned back to that time so long before any of them had even been born.He was fifteen, and still growing. Already he towered over his father, Tanrick the Fur trader. His mother, Jenrick of the Elven Kindred, was even smaller than her husband. She often laughed in bemused wonderment at this tall stick figure of a son she had borne. He played with neighbor children in the streets of Ast'te, watching.