So, as the ninth stroke landed, so she told herself that she was likely to be in for at least twelve in total, and maybe more. With that thought, she ...ubmitted fully and just accepted that the tears would start to dribble down her face. That, together with letting out a sob, she knew would tell Emma how much she was suffering. However, she also knew that when caning the girls at college who then started to cry, it only made her cane even harder to make sure that they really did learn the lesson. ? I wasnaked and kneeling andlocked into some kind of strange construction.? Myhands were bound behind me and my mouth wasgagged.? I'm sure I looked a sight.? But Kyra told methis is what Bill liked, so there I was.? And I didn'tknow whether to feel humiliated, or scared, or excited. Maybe a little of all three.? Iknow part of me wasthinking this was amazingly bizarre.?But the rest ofme was hoping against hope that this was the answerI'd been praying for.? Everythingwas ready.? Kyrawas going to. From the moors at the top of the valley come the soundof curlews. Nothing seems to be moving in the fields and woods below them.This isn't life.It's a tableau, frozen in time.If she's not careful she'll become part of it.And hoard pens and pencils...Her mother eventually appears carrying a large parcel tied with a bow. Sheasks Tina to hold it while she unlocks the boot, at the same time givingher a look that says she ought to have had the common courtesy to enquirewhether anything needed to be. .. reproduce?" I asked."The eggs of our women are extracted when they reach Tarle–the time they become a woman. The eggs are kept safe until a man can be found who is willing to be drained and their sperm used to fertilize the eggs," Tara raised the front of her outfit. "As you notice, the women here have no navel... that is because we are really clones–there simply are not enough men on this planet for us to have children the way you know. I am the fourteenth of my clone. But other than having.