"Short of a spreadsheet my description of my "household" will be hard to understand—because there were almost thirty human sponsors. Then there were...some specialist concubines such as the couple that took care of the horses. Then there were four-footed family—two dogs (Nana and Rex, the mommy dog and the pack alpha), a wolf named Calgary, a bear named Big Momma, the lead stallion and dominant mare, and a woman wearing only a large cobra—that snake must have been three meters long!"I am Lilith,". I would do this well. "I see your resolve. Excellent." She was done with my hair. I felt so pampered, like never in my life. "I love it here. This is where I belong." I thought with delight. "I will embrace the pain when it comes." I looked at Ayala and was sure she knew exactly what I was thinking.She kissed my lips. "I've made this journey too." She whispered, turned and led me downstairs. My mind was racing, pondering all she had said. I knew I was intelligent and now I was also being shown. Finally, I said, "Allie, I'm not sure just how I feel about all this. On the one hand, I really want to believe that nothing happened, but then again, why couldn't you just talk to me? You could have told me that from the discussions from your nights out where some things were mentioned that you might like to try, but we might have to wait until Maggie was out on a date or staying with her girlfriends. We could have made some kind of time for us for thing to happen, but no; you decided to. .. heaven.Getting through the meal without interruption, I enquired about the possibility of a bath.“Two pinches for first water, a pinch thereafter ... each. If she,” he nodded at Grace, “so much as touches the water it’s a pinch.”“So, three pinches if she gets in the first water tub with me?”He looked at Grace again. He shuddered.“That vision is beyond fair,” he said.“You’re going to use your spy hole ... instead, I should charge you to watch me wash her.”His eyes rolled back and a wet spot.