Somehow my clothing hadsplit and shredded itself and was hanging off of me in tatters. I wasglad to slip into something that was not so ragged and as ... slipped intoit I luxuriated in the feeling of the silk as it covered me. I stoodstill as she attached the veil to hang over my face leaving my eyes bareand as soon as I demonstrated that I could put it back on properly, shestrung a net of pearls over my curly hair."The master will expect you to be in his chambers this evening. You willserve him. Julie looked exactly like a teenaged boy rather than a nineteen year old dyke. In the past, even with that short hair of hers, the flat chest and the narrow hips, Julie, to him, had always looked very much the female. The times he'd been with her and his aunt, in and out of bed, Julie had on lipstick and earrings and wore sexy little shorts and a halter top and cute panties underneath. Now there was none of that, no lipstick, no jewelry. What 'Joey' was wearing were jeans, a T-shirt and a pair. I knocked on the Colonel’s door and pushed it open.Colonel Beal turned from talking to Captain Harris and Captain Johns, “Lieutenant Drake, Emperor Tenison has approved your promotion to Captain.”I stopped in front of him, “It would have made things simpler to just fill Crimson company sir or reassign me to another company.”He snorted, “Tell that to the Emperor. He wants you, Senior Sergeant Henry and Top Sergeant Choi to be examples. That was why he had Albert talk you into accepting the. At a word, I would drop to my knees. There’s nothing at all that I would deny you… I bathed, plucked, chose your favorite gown, your favorite panties, perfumed, did my hair, all just to be with you in bed.Your voice though… I could listen to you from our bedroom for hours, every word audible through the register in our floor. It rises and falls like the water reaching a pool from a cliff; deep, rumbling, musical. No wonder men follow you. No wonder men want to be you. No wonder women.