Her escort took the shortest routes possible and tried to move quickly to minimize the time she had to spend outside, but several thousand residents s...w the naked concubine as she rode through the narrow streets and walked around the marketplaces. It seemed that every one of her spectators had to stare at her. She never imagined she’d actually be glad to return to the castle, but after being gawked at all day she was really looking forward to getting back.The final stop was at the Temple of the. He was headed back to the dorm, walking through a part of campus usually mostly deserted at night.Four kids were walking in the other direction."Hey, you're that figure skater!" Yeah, I am," Warren smiled."Aren't all figure skaters fags?" No. Some are, but not all." Warren said."I've heard all figure skaters are fags," another one said. "And all of them with girlfriends and shit, that's just a smokescreen." Nah. Believe me, my girlfriend is not a smokescreen." Yeah, right. You're all fags. You. But after a while I got comfortable with it. I'll tell you what, if any of the people I used to work with had known what I did on vacation they'd have just about shit. I think they thought I was out driving a race car some place, and I was just as happy to let them think it." So, did you drive race cars?" Catalina asked."When I was younger, but I gave it up before I retired. I used to work at a Ford plant outside of Detroit, and I ran street stocks at Flat Rock for years. After a while it quit. Should they engage with Black Mall again? Fatimawas still resisting the idea, but there was another meeting scheduled at 1 PM today, and she was trying to keep an open mind. Fatimahighly valued Mark’s opinion, and it unsettled her that he had switched to Amber’s argument for contact. Fatimatook a deep breath and tried to put the issue out of her mind. The network reset at Wobanakik was six hours away. That should be her focus now. She got up and headed for the kitchen hoping to find some.