Once the tutors were gone, I persuaded Master Damien to sit. I rubbed the tense muscles in his back


    and shoulders. He Loved to be touched, so I slipped my hands under his shirt to massage him. The


    attention had the intended result and he rxed.


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    My men ate Lightly at lunch as did I. Their punishment was to take ce afterwards and they didn’t


    want to do it on a full stomach.


    “We have now experienced nausea,” Master Bane said watching me. “We think you will feel this when


    we are punished. None of us wish to experience that again.”


    Master Damien shifted me on hisp and sighed. He wondered if he should leave me in their room. Nu-


    reeh answered that question when she came into the dining hall a moment Later.


    “The ve will sit with me while you are punished,” she stated simply motioning me to follow her.


    We walked through the halls briskly. I followed Nu-reeh’srge strides in a near jog. By the time we


    made it to where we were going I was out of breath.


    The hall we stepped into was crowded. It was full of men there to watch the afternoon entertainment. I


    heard bets ced as to who would scream the loudest and how many Lashes the punishment would


    entail. If Master Bane wasn’t being punished, he’d be having a grand time in theotion.


    Nu-reeh headed toward a raised dais along the wall. She Lifted me onto it and then followed with a


    leap. Therge woman gestured to a seat and I took it quickly. Nu-reeh settled gracefully beside me.


    I watched the raucous crowd of Warriors that were gathered beneath us. Unless I shut my eyes there


    was no way not to look at them. Master Damien was quite firm in his belief I should not shut my eyes


    around Nu-reeh, so I was permitted to watch.


    Looking to the head of the room I saw Rue and his Brothers were already there. They were shirtless


    and looking vaguely anxious. Master Damien and his family went to the same ce and stripped off


    their shirtsying them to the side. The two families stood apart and stared hard at each other, which


    seemed to surprise the rest of the men in the room.


    “Didn’t they work together?” I heard the men whisper to one another.


    “Aren’t they friends?”


    It wasn’t hard to miss. Master Damien looked like he wanted to fight Rue and his Brothers. The rest of


    my family had the same fierce look. Even awaiting punishment they Looked like dark, angry Warriors


    ready to do battle.


    Nu-reeh made a sound akin to purring next to me and I looked up at her. “Look at them, ve,” she


    said eyeing Master Damien Like a piece of meat.


    “You see the fire? They had almost Lost that passion. I knew what they were doing when they left me.


    When they came back with their natures returned each time I knew I was making the correct decision.”


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    Nu-reeh looked down at me.


    “I do not know exactly what you do to them,” she said tracing my face with a w, “but I want it to


    continue. They are valuable assets Like this


    “Yes, Mistress,” I whispered as the w left my face.


    “You will not carry another child, though,” she stated. “That is uneptable.”


    “Yes, Mistress,” came out of my mouth automatically.


    “You have nothing to offer me,” she continued, her eyes still on Master Damien. “There is no talent the


    human race has that I need on this.”


    “Yes, Mistress.”


    “Evan’s talent I appreciate,” she said gesturing. “His breeder many generations back was not of


    Pateria. From that ve he gained his ability,” she told me.


    I was too shocked to speak and even Master Evan Looked curiously over at us. Evidently, he hadn’t


    known that either.