The other option is to force everyone to leave the village until the guards arrive, but you can’t do that in this rain, not with the weather growing...colder.”Jase pursed his lips, then nodded reluctantly. “All right. I’m going to go ask the healer if Will will be able to ride. Excuse me for a moment.”After he’d left, Ellerie said, “You should have talked to us before deciding we’d stay here.”“I only said I would stay. I wasn’t really expecting you to stick around.”“I’m not going to just leave. It was 2 o'clock in the morning. He had been working on a project in his basement for most of the previous day. It was a theoretical project he had been working on the last couple of months after the idea popped in his head. You see, Dan has a bit of issues dealing with the other sex. Even though he is a good looking fellah, his people skills and ways with the ladies are far below par to score with the chicks.So this dream world of his where women were super easy and would easily agree to the. You have to take care of yourthings and that means your school work too." Okay, Beth. I'll be more careful. It's not too bad, anyway." I ran myhands over it a couple of times. "There."She gave me another look."C'mon, Beth. I'm trying. You've had twelve years to learn how to be a girl and I've had two days. Actually, I think I'm doing pretty good." Actually, I think you're doing pretty good too and I'm really happyyou chose to be my sister." She reached over and patted my arm.Touching is. This now really had me very much on edge.Had I stupidly bitten off more than I could chew..? I again heard her behind me. She was gauging her distance by tapping my bottom a little. Then that stopped, a whoosh was heard at just about the same time the cane sliced into my butt..I couldn’t help it I yelped and swore...Mistress said 10 more strokes for using profanities. It was useless trying to argue because more would have been added again. The 2nd stroke and another whoosh and the crack...The.