"I'll just stay here and fork my hair." There should be some coffee ready, any minute," he smiled as he headed for the bathroom.He took his time, and ...e was back out in a few minutes, to see her standing by the sink, working the fork through her hair. He'd been aware that it was long, but now he realized just how long and thick it was, jet black, glistening as she worked on it. "I'll get going on breakfast," he suggested. "I'm afraid it won't be anything much, unless you wouldn't mind something. If Upper Danubia could benefit from a trade deal, great. If the Duchy had to withdraw from trade agreements or international organizations to preserve some aspect of its society, identity, or independence, so be it. Dukov made it very clear from the first day of his government that he had no commitments to foreign interests or to the global economy. When he stated: "My commitment is to Danubia", he actually meant it.The new government started out by canceling any economic agreement that Dukov. He was ready to pop by Friday night. I sent him off to do a double enemaand then to take a long bubble bath and to shave his body, just an caseany of the yucky hair had grown back. It hadn?t. Jenny was always shavedand ready to play, but I enjoyed making her go through the routineanyway.She came out of the bathroom to find a new toy mounted to a stool in theliving room. It was as thick as a soda can and 14? long. It was by farthe biggest dildo she?d ever tried. I didn?t care. I tossed her a. ”“You said yourself that in Berlin, it did not come to war.” True outright war was terribly rare among Kindred. Elders ruled, and elders were far too paranoid to risk their second lives in a struggle that, to them, was ultimately a fleeting moment in a lifespan measured in centuries. The purge Antoinette had herself enacted was an exception, not the norm.Naturally, Elaine had been thinking of the purge as well.“Ann, you fought Lucas and killed his bishops, and you did so because the man was a.