The eunuchs made no move to prevent this, and the bath girls offered to help her as usual. They were treating her as if she were simply waiting for th...e Emir to join her. This added to her mental anguish, because she assumed, wrongly, that they often had to keep an eye on miscreants waiting for punishment.Their instructions had been quite explicit, and given before the trial started; she was to be treated as a guest, but not allowed to leave the Emir's apartments. None of her questions were to. I knew what was next andwent along with it."Pick any outfit, make sure you pick something nice, or else I'll do thepicking for you," said the girl as she left the room. I walked over tothe clothing rack and pulled off a short pink skirt and a pink sweaterwith a tank top. I took off the bath robe and pulled up the skirt andput on the blouse and sweater. The material was soft and breezy. It mademe shiver. I put on some custom made pumps designed to make my size 13feet look smaller. After getting. I didn't expect him and Tracey to be home this early. I smiled as I recalled the conversation I'd had with Tony yesterday.Tony had been sitting on the hood of his car, waiting for me to come home Thursday after school. He had looked visibly nervous when I walked up the driveway."Hi, Tony," I called as I walked up to his car. "If you're waiting for Tracey, you've got a long wait. She's catering a party over in Cedarton."He slid off the hood of his car and held out his hand. "I know. That's why I. The tea kettle whistled and she got up to attend to it. Rob grabbed a cup from the miniperk and doctored it up, getting out of her way. He sat at the table and watched as she went through the arcane ritual of preparing tea. He admitted to himself that it certainly smelled better than the store-bought stuff, then wondered if it was his heightened senses causing him to think that. He took a deep whiff of his coffee and decided it was the tea.After cleaning the infuser, Elaina returned to the.