But every year, one girl was chosen for a special honour. This year, I was that girl, and despite wanting this for my entire life, I would have swappe...d places with any of the others in an instant, right then. I'd never been this close to the anointing before either, and wasn't quite sure what was going to happen. I was about to find out.Surrounding me quietly, and listening to the Headwoman intone a prayer, the girls all then scooped some white paste from bowls, spread it on their hands, and. And she had a dowry. The king had paid her the same amount as he paid his soldiers. The gold coins in her belt would let her parents ease their toil and provide her with money to purchase a better husband.But now she stood beside the king, who had just told her to remove her underclothing and it was a bit much for her.“Come,” Julia said, seeing the woman was about to drop over. “There are other women in the bushes doing the same. It appears either the king speaks true or all the men are in on. Deciding that the results were too unpredictable, I opted to forget all about conditioned responses and their unexpected consequences. In retrospect, I should have continued with what I was doing, but I was too shaken by the unexpected results to realize there was a solid foundation for me to build from.------------------------------------------------------------------------------MICHELLE'S TRAINING------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fast forward. ..” Shiloh wanted to say that there was no way she could concentrate on what Kaius was saying if he didn’t stop what he was doing, but he gently shushed her.“Just listen, baby. You don’t need to speak. Malcolm is going to make Nick crush him and Nick’s put himself in a position where he has no choice but to go through with it. My brother is a walking dead man,” said Kaius.Shiloh whimpered. She didn’t know if Kaius thought Malcolm would actually wind up dying from his conflict from Nick or if.