Marlena put on her robe to go to Thomas’s suite. She could hear Thomas at the piano playing a pop tune as three men and five women were singing at t...e top of their lungs. The adjoining door was unlocked and Marlena walked in and took Thomas aside and warned him that they needed to keep the noise down or security would be called. Thomas was sober enough to know if he didn’t quiet things down the party was over. But not sober enough to not try and impress his friends with his control over. At eight o'clock she brought me the dinner menu as usual for my orders. I told her I felt too tired to dress and go down, so would dine in my own room and that she must dine with me, as she was looking so tired and upset generally. She looked surprised, and I think she hesitated about accepting my invitation, but did so.At dinner, of course, she had to talk. I saw she had refreshing and appetizing food and she made a good dinner. I also induced her to drink a little Burgundy, which seemed to do. He walked round her looking up and down her body and just as he moved behind her she felt a sharp sticking pain across her ass as he whipped her with a riding crop. He told her that every time she does not do as she is told that she would be punished this way. He then walked over to a table that was in the corner of the room and pulled a chair out from under it and moved it into the middle of the room and he told Olivia to come over and sit down. She did as he asked and sat down in the chair,. I kept hoping for the wind to change direction. We were three quarters of the way around the village, and the smoke had been blowing straight into my face for the last quarter.Meanwhile, I kept walking forward waiting for Jason and Kayley to cut runes into the soil on the boundary of the village so I could sprinkle the mix of salt, cow's milk and blood into the runes.You see, rituals are this weird mix of habit, an item's worth, circles, runes and intention. So, if you change something then the.