. sometime.The Colonel chuckled and said, "Well, that is a definite, almost, maybe plan. I wonder if the Shine People have a marriage ceremony of some...type."Hoot replied, "From what I remember Child saying when we first met, I believe once they bond, that is it. I did notice that the bonded, married, or otherwise attached females, change the last part of their given name with a hyphenation of some type. When Child first met her, the name given was Trist. Now, I notice it is Trist-ah, and I've. As we walked toward the door to the room, Randy put his arm around me and told me that i shouldn't be ashamed of what had happened the day his father discovered us, but that i had every right to be angry. i impressed upon him that i wasn't angry, only a bit confused, and definitely a little embarrassed. Randy nodded absently at that. when we got the door at the end of the hallway, i turned the old brass knob on it and opened it. the scent of vacancy and lack of use in the room was. "Look. I'm not promising anything specific. All I can say is what everyone has been told already. The whole estate seems to work very well, and I am not making any changes until I can see what might need doing and what the effect will be. It may well be that I make no changes at all. But what I can promise is that if everyone keeps doing their jobs then I will look after them, and that includes people when they retire. But I do sex because I enjoy it, and I hope whoever does it with me enjoys. Smyth stared right at Sharon. "I've decided that enough is enough. It is high time I make an example of one of you delinquents, and that someone is you. You will fail this class, you will not graduate, and you will be left back. I will speak to the office first thing Monday morning."Sharon was aghast. Not graduating was bad enough (she couldn't imagine her parents reaction), but the humiliation of being left back was too much. She was practically pleading when she asked if there was anything.