“Aww,” I mock complained.“Don’t worry, she’s a heavy sleeper when she’s drunk. Just don’t step on her, ok?”I kissed her forehead. “O...f course,” I mumbled into the hair on top of her head. It smelled nice, like some tropical fruit. She made a cute little sigh of contentment as she rested against me, and we sat like that for a few minutes.She started, and I realized she had been nodding off. “Imma gonna go now. See you soon,” she slurred to me, and staggered to her feet with a little help. I. "You know, I really could go for some of those sausages from Walsuk's tavern," I said, chuckling."Even Lasahn won't eat those, "Pteri said, closing her eyes, "And she had nothing to eat for two weeks but rat!" Lucky for her, too," I replied, "If she hadn't been eating rats, we never would have found a way to get her out of that cell." I still say it was risky," Pteri commented, "Using that spell to GIVE a rat the key and releasing it, hoping it would wander into her cell. How did you know it. " Yes." All right, we can do that." Of course we can. We should start now though, because they're comingover fairly soon." Okay, let's start, just pull out the pot, and I'll put the sauce intothe bowl," Dan stated as he walked into the small kitchen with Kelly. "Sure let's go," Kelly replied as she pulled out the pot from a floorcabinet, while Dan pulled out a large white bowl from a cupboard. Kellyplaced the pot into the sink, and she ran the water into, while Danopened the sauce containers. Miss Howard barked out the command."Strip."We looked apprehensively at each other; the approach now without warninghad changed; now an atmosphere of threat had replaced the previous oneof calm."Come on we haven't got all day."The tone in Miss Howard's voice convinced us that we had better notdelay. Along with my fellow prisoners I undressed. Finally all three ofus stood totally nude in front of our female guards. I glanced across atmy companions, they like me were standing heads slightly bowed.