Raising his arm only the minimum distance needed, the eunuch gave her three sharp cracks with his dog whip across her shoulders. The woman whimpered i... pain and fell to her knees in obeisance."Come here," said Elaheh imperiously.The servant looked up but was uncertain whether to obey a female when in the presence of the Emir. Another lick of the whip across her buttocks convinced her that she should obey."Let me see the stripes," said the Princess, and the woman quickly removed her smock.The. . perhaps too feminine. Maybe I was simply a weak soul, too weak for even love. And, maybe that is what it is, and so, with a war of the ages above us, and with the possibility that life will end soon by way of a third world terrorist's desires, I pour my soul out in hopes of catching some kind of completion or realizations about my world, my hopes, my needs, and hopefully, my value to others, somewhere, somehow.Our story has to start somewhere, and I have been tortured over where foryears, a. I just sat by him on the bus a few times and mashed my chest into his arm, really. I suppose he picked up on that right away, because, less than a week after I started, he had invited my to his house. That day, I told my mom that I was going over to a friend's house, which made things easier. Anyway, to make a long story short, we spent a couple hours touching each other. I remember that Tod - that was his name, Tod, squeezed my chest so hard he left bruises, and that he wasn't much interested. So I supposed I would be driving to the highway service road the next couple of days. At least for breakfast.There was also a nice steakhouse in the parking lot of the Embassy. After my last experience with steak, I decided to pass on the steak. The mother of the college boy hadn't come to work. It was obvious she worked the lunch and dinner shifts.After breakfast I drove the block to the docks and found a fisherman who hadn't left. The men were storing ice in the hold of a tug boat looking.