From that day on I just tried my best to avoid trouble and white people always. Some of you may ask why I never pursued the matter but I was just happ... to be alive and both officers had shown up and threatened me and my family were anything more to come of the matter. Lucilla and I continued to see each other after I recovered and we married one another after we finished college. I got a degree in business administration and she received hers in history and went on to become a professor and. The closure mechanism is a one time lock. Once sealed, it can never be unsealed because there's no key hole, and no way to access the lock." So once I put it on you, that's it. You shower with it, sleep in it, everything?" Yes. I will wear it forever." You're really sure about this?" Yes, Mistress. I love you and will stay with you for as long as you let me."I hesitated for a second. I had been trying to wean Carol away from the 'slave' identity. This would make it more difficult, but I. .. “Is that... ?”“Archdemon leather.” Alistair nodded with a smile. I stood open-mouthed, staring at him like a simpleton. “Paider made this using the measurements from your old armour. It’s enchanted to resist fire,” he rolled his eyes at me and I couldn’t help but giggle, even as shocked as I was, “and cold too. If we’re going to live here, with year-round winter, you can at least be warm.” He took the cloak from my unresisting hands and walked behind me, draping it over my shoulders and. “Well, I’ll be in and out all day,” Mom said. “I need to weed the front flower bed and swap the pansies for dahlias before it gets too hot.” Mom loved working in the yard and we usually won the best yard in the neighborhood during the spring and summer months.We made it about halfway through the meal before Mark and Joe came in laughing.“Y’all got enough to share?” Joe asked as they came into the kitchen.“Sure,” Mom said, then turned to me. “Would you get them plates and orange juice?”“Sure,” I.