I still wanted to get her into one, of course, but slowly would be better. I said, "No. If I'd wanted you to do that, I would've asked you outright ra...ther than hinting at it. Although you've got a great body and would look fantastic in such a bikini, you'd be far too self-conscious. I'm trying to teach the girl to be more confident, so you wouldn't help." -- I thought of a little addition. It was slightly nasty, and therefore irresistible, "Carol is going to be doing it. Her willingness to help. He took the design of the Japanese midget subs of World War II, and made a few improvements. They were over one third larger, and carried four torpedoes. Range was an issue, but they would be more than capable of protecting the coastal waters. It had taken him a month to design a working battery array. Even then, he could only manage to increase the submerged time to six hours. He thought that would be plenty.Vicky came up with another strategic idea. Since they had no air force, she suggested. You spentless time with him alone and allowed me to spend more more time with himalone.You would taunt me about you leaving me for him. You meant it also. Youwanted to but was having too much fun with your toy. You always neverknew when to quit.While your toy started to be a real person around Simon. He needs morethan a woman who thinks she is the queen, he needs one who is actuallyhis queen. One who is at her man's side, who does things with him and onewho knows him like I do.You forgot that. It appeared to be a vast meadow. And there were so many stocks, each with a person in them. I shivered at that, shaking my head at the monstrosity of Prince Meinard’s actions.If he had an army of thousands of animated statues, then there must be thousands of humans out there, all shackled to the lodestone. It was such a terrible thing. It felt worse than normal slavery. At least then they’d still had their minds free.“You can do this,” Sven told me, stroking my arms through my pink robe.I.