" Mother, if I really knew what was wrong, I would tell you," Diane said, an exasperated edge to her voice as she set the plate in the dishwasher."I h...d a feeling something was going on. You were rather subdued all morning." I don't talk a lot when we go to church." I mean more so than usual." Janet kicked the dishwasher door up and closed it. "Is there anything I can do? Especially if it would help Heather in some way." I don't ... I mean, I suppose it could, yes."Janet tilted her head, giving. "Well I guess I better show you how to dress too," she said. "Eddie wasquite specific about what you were to wear for him tonight."Carmel selected a pair of glossy, sheer to the waist taupe pantyhose androlled them up my legs. She stood me up and showed me how to pull themtight around my arse. The nylon felt cool and slippery on my legs, notunpleasant. I had always loved to run my hands up a nyloned thigh buthad never imagined what it would be like to wear them. I nearly diedwhen Carmel put her. ” A tear trickled down my cheek and I stopped and buried my face in your chest. The tension in my body was too much to bear. My insatiable womanhood throbbed forlornly. You cradled me in the crook of your arm, whispering to me, soothing me. "You are so beautiful, Sara. Your skin, your hair- it's a delight to touch you and to hold you. You are too wound up. Relax; let me drain some of that negative tension from you. Just relax." You stroked my hair and my face and rained little kisses on my nose. Up ahead, a single gate was the only opening in the low stone wall that cut the village off from the rest of the valley. Villagers in the fields looked up apatheticly as they passed, but most of them turned immediately back to their work.Mak stayed well away from the village gates as Nurm met with the leaders of Arlund. He didn't really know whether word of his disgrace had preceded him, but there was no shame in being cautious. He busied himself with unpacking the caravan's donkeys, then.