?I dropped the basketball and folded my arms,staring at him. And Colin, instead of rationalizingabout all the pressure he was under, how he needed a ...smoke, Colin justbegan crying, cause he knew I was going to beat his ass. "Please Jocko, please Daddy, itwas just one cigarette, don't beat Colin I won't do it anymore, I'll be a goodboy--" ?But then I snappedmy fingers, and Colin stripped on the spot, and I handed him his chastity beltkey, and he unlocked that, and then, tears rolling down his. Turning down the sound with a remote, the General settled back into his leather wingback chair and spoke as if making a speech to the whole room."The farmers on the Eastern Shore have thumbed their noses at authority for the last few years. When the President designated an area for a Potter Town, a resettlement town, the Shoremen raided the local armories and blockaded the peninsula. After three years of trying to negotiate, the government has finally decided to deal with them. The only problem. ..”“Mr. Grant ... Tim,” she said quickly, interrupting. “If you don’t mind ... I’d like to accept your gracious offer of dinner tonight, but with one condition. Let’s NOT talk about the Hobart Contract. Okay? We’ll have a date, just the two of us, right here in this office. But please, please, let’s not talk about the Hobart Contract.”“Jenny,” I pleaded, “if I said something that...”“Please, Tim. Please? Not another word. Okay?”I slumped back onto the couch. “Sure,” I replied, trying to hide. Please make yourselves comfortable. When you want another drink, simply imagine it and it will appear in front of you. I love magic. Don’t think of food or the chef will kill me for spoiling your appetite for dinner. Many of the chefs training with Robert consider it the greatest honor to produce food for Versailles. I should say new Versailles but it gets tiring quickly. The city we will simply call Paris and if necessary, we can call it Paris on Porquenta.“Now on to business, there is much to.