"Eve, you've always been there but never really with us. I don't know if we kept away the boredom or what, but I can see now we were just moons in you... orbit as far as you were concerned, especially me. I know, I was just the little puppy following the amazing Teresa Dubois around and I'm well aware you made fun of me and cut me down to the other girls. Somebody to beat on or tease when there was nothing better to do. I forgave you; it was just the way you were and, to be honest, it's not like. When she was turned around for her second 50 strokes, everybody was sitting on the edge of their seats, waiting to see what would happen when the whip landed on her nipples. The man wielding the whip was unusually skilled in its use and managed to miss her nipples and pussy for the first 10 strokes. The audience was beginning to get restive at this apparent coddling of the madam, and some unpleasant noises were coming from the crowd.The 11th stroke on her front changed all of that! This blow. I turn back around and face him."If we are going to talk about this I am going to need to know the fulltruth." I spoke this time with a bit of anger in my voice hoping to makehim feel even worse.The stands up and puts his firm hands on both my shoulders, I gently pushthem off."Okay, it all started three years ago with someone at my office, It feltwrong from the start but I was too weak to finish it every day I workthrough this door and I have had the urge to tell you the truth, but Ihave been. I believe though, that they were after one of the auxiliary neuromancy devices in order to disrupt Craachan at a later date and remove us from power.”“A disturbing conclusion, Seeker,” Karkol stated thoughtfully. “They may well have been ... disturbed by the greater Psiontial and allowed us to think they weren’t.”“Admittedly so, revered Archimandrite. But, it is also likely that the activities of the creature drew their attention to the base and hence the device. I am also somewhat ambivalent.