She hangs her dripping face in shame, for just a moment she can see her friend Valathra in much the same predicament. Then there is another cock in fr...nt of her. Cruel hands gripping her hair, pulling her head back up. With a groan she obediently takes this new cock in her mouth.New hands moving to molest her sore breasts. Those precious orbs should have been snuggled and petted gently by her future husband. These wretched thugs were slapping and pinching, mauling and pulling. Treating them. It took a while for me to get her out of my head. She was quite a woman. I prayed for understanding, and I thanked Kassandra for keeping me safe this morning. I also prayed for Meri. I hoped that she would find somewhere that she would be happy.It was late when I called it a night. I dreamed of being frozen in place, with Chandra tugging me in one direction, and Megan tugging me in the other, It was a strange dream.The predawn light was just streaming through my window when a wake-up knock came. My first piece of luck! Now, if I could move, I could get the drop on him for a change. The problem was my head was a broken mess and my body wasn't following instructions well. I tried to stand up and had another short blackout. I tried to pull myself up a bit but quit just as I felt myself start to blackout. Not so good.I went to Plan B, I pulled out my cell phone. "M" assumed a dead person wouldn't be using it, and had left it in my pocket, but he had taken my gun) and started dialing. FIVE GOLD PIECES!!! That was more money than any man at the fortress would earn in two years. Within an hour, almost every soldier in the fortress was mounted and ready to ride. The only reason the 15 or so remaining men stayed was because the captain of the guard ordered them to. After all, he couldn’t leave the fortress completely unguarded. William was actually afraid that a fight might break out in the fort before the men could leave, but Barak quickly informed the men that he understood.