The sudden change that had come over him. And how he looked back on the last few years. The darkness he saw, or the film of grayness, rather. His feel...ngs - or his lack of them, to be precise. It must have surprised Frank - they never talked about things like this.He sure surprised himself.As John went through his tale, he saw how Frank paled a little. He fidgeted with his glass of beer. And when John paused, Frank suddenly apologized. As a friend, he said, but more even as a doctor he had. At least that is the atmosphere in his hometown where his family resided and where his new bride and his soon to be delivered offspring would be there to continue on in his absence if his next expedition was not as rewarding.He was well aware that the enemy was not truly defeated but had merely withdrawn because of logistical difficulties. He would have done the same thing if the sides were reversed.In the closing days of the confrontation, his unit had captured a “back-up” station of slave. When he had first given her the arrowhead, he had looked into her eyes and expressed such love. Of course, it was a platonic sibling love and not the romantic love that Thea was hoping for, but it was pure love nonetheless. She knew for a fact that the arrowhead meant something to him, deeply, and he was full of such care at the fact that he had shared it with her. He probably could have made any number of other excuses to try to justify the connection, but he chose a hollow and transparent. He pulled me up and tied the bandana in my mouth and Told me to bend over the table and spread my arms and legs he got a chair and sat behind me and started spanking me telling me I was a dirty whore. He told me not to move he went and got something out of the drawer and told me not to move as he showed me the spatula and a wooden spoon telling me I needed to be punished he smacked my ass with the spatula pretty hard and it made me jump so he set it down grabbed the rope and tied it around my.