They do not know what is there, so they imagine it must be some threat, some danger to them, to their interests, their power base. I must elude them. ...ou understand, there are dangers I must avoid?No! It is painful even to think ... nothing in our culture. Anathema, Michael-mine, such aggression, violence, harm ... How do you survive so much these ... conflicts, Michael-mine?Michael smiled within himself, and Dee'rah sensed his ironic humor:I survive, lovely Dee'rah, because that is what we do.. Just as with no safeword, she has no idea when this scene willplay out. As it turns out, it will play out today.It was a day not unlike many others. My sweet Mistress had her family totake care of, just as I had mine. Because of that, our time together hadbeen limited of late. Though we both hoped to remedy that today.Amusingly enough, while my wife was out with her lover, I thinkMistress's husband was out with his. Instead of invading her home, or herinvading mine, we decided that this was one. "You're going to stay here until you recover. Jake and I will pamper the shit out of you, rub you with oils... or bloody bacon fat if you want. Jake will flash you his chest and we'll giggle together like silly schoolgirls. We'll sit together and perv at his arse when he bends over in the garden. You will work reasonable hours or you'll find your computer will go missing. We'll have that spa, Sharmila, on a warm night with a bottle of wine. We'll then flash our boobs at him and drive him. James would ask questions about how Jasmine could be a warrior and when she had time to learn all of this as she looked so young.“In Cassandra terms I am twenty-eight years old. But we have a very different time sequence. On Chaos I would be just over one hundred and twelve and on Earth, I would be sixty-five.”That revaluation just about had me falling out of my saddle. “What is wrong, my Hero?”“Beth and I never discussed her age in Earth terms. I remembered that she was twenty-seven when I.