When they had finished, my whole body was covered in black and blue raised welts and my balls had swollen to five times their normal size. They let me...down then fixed me solidly into a gynecological chair with my legs spread wide in the air.Alice and Jane worked on cock and balls, they burned them with the tip of a red hot soldering iron, Alice injected a burning mixture of salt vinegar and Tabasco sauce into my balls, Jane pushed tip of the iron down my urethra then filled it with the burning. I can live with that. I think we're close, anyway." I know."They sat silently. Felek saw the two kids move away from the fire, plates in hand. Not needing any dinner bell, soldiers began making their way over. Anelie let out a sigh beside him."I wish I knew what I was doing." Same here." What does the Queen's note say?" No idea. His Grace didn't say." Great." After a moment's pause, she groaned. "Oh, fuck." What?"She pointed. From the patch of trees downstream, figures came into view. Felek. Princes were raised in the faith that they had a geas (an obligation), to those below them. Lordlings similarly were mindful of their inferiors and the peasant was mindful of his obligations to his superiors and minded his stock and his crops and his neighbours (but not necessarily in that order). Life went on that way for many centuries. It was not always like it. The tranquillity of the land was not as it is now, rather, it was still hedged by those who saw things differently, and thus was. ”With a touch of a button, the system blared out, “General Quarters. General Quarters.”Not much had changed because almost all the stations were already filled, but now everyone was super alert.“Navigator, plot a course to bring us within a million miles of the planet on the screen.”A couple of moments later, the course was sent to the Pilot, and when he acknowledged, Jeff said, “Initiate.”After giving Helen, the Pilot and the Navigator time to search the area around the planet with their.