.. get on your knees, I wish you to clense my manhood properly." he rose from the water to tand infront of her. Xephiran backed up a step, " Master Ra...en please, do not make me do this I beg you!" The second the words slipped her mouth he hit her with the back of his large hand. she could taste the saltyness of her own blood. His nails bit into her scalp as he fisted a handfull of her hair and forced her to her knees"OPEN YOUR MOUTH!" he shouted in her ear and as he yanked her hair roughly his. Nancy fought the grief and felt her heart lurch painfully in her chest. She drew in a gasp of air, and her sob echoed loudly in the ballroom. The room was silent, witnessing her open grief. Flashes from the cameras of the gathered media popped and sizzled. Nancy looked up, with tears streaming down her face.“I’m sorry, folks. My emotions are getting the best of me. Tonight, we must celebrate all that this organisation has done to combat this disease. It takes so much and gives nothing but grief. ”“Major Powers said I should have a heart-to-heart talk with you. Something about you not really knowing me.”“If that gold stripe is real, he’s right. I was afraid you’d come back still «sandan». How you came back «godan» is mind-boggling.”I grinned, “Oh, I don’t know. From one insufferable git to another, I’d say it’s not THAT mind-boggling.”Sensei Jim started laughing hard, “I knew I never should have sent you to Japan! Birgit, honey, take your uniform to your mom so she can help you get. There were fifteen people taking up the tables on one side of the main lounge.I could see Ann's parents, her brother and sister. Yes, I recognised them; remembered them. The rest must have been other relatives and friends. We had entered the pub via an adjoining room out of a direct line of sight by Ann.Originally each room had a door, but these had long since gone and each room was thus open to the next through a doorway. Trish steered me to a table in that empty room, round the corner and out.