" And rightly so, however what if someone took receipt of your gifted pleasures by deception?" I would have his head."Jacob swallowed. He was suddenly... very awake.Merlin smiled. He stepped up to a large bowl of water on the ground."Water! Burn!" The wizard threw something into the bowl and the water became ablaze. It was not simple dry ice this time. He turned to face his competition. "So great wizard Jacob, this should be no difficulty for you." Umm ... well, you know, dude. I don't have that. During the course of our time together, he’d helped me discover my sensual side. He let me express my dreams, my desires, my needs both mental and physical. I found that I wasn’t a ‘prude’ like I’d been labeled all those years in school. I yet had to experience any relationship with a flesh and blood human being, but I was no longer without hopes that I could be a lover if given the chance. I just needed the chance. My curiosity was aroused when the gentleman on the phone mentioned Nighthawk’s. You don't have any trouble taking your clothes off for anyone you like. If you haven't been to bed with him, I'd be really surprised." Mary, should I be insulted by that?" Not unless you get insulted by the truth. Takes a smart man to see the truth, though." Look Anne. I like you a whole lot. You could even say I like you better than a bucket of ribs..."Anne laughed, and Mary grinned broadly as she watched them."... but I wasn't born yesterday. You took me home and jumped me the first time I. He looked at Pelle."My Reeve, what else did you find?" I found that you were cheated out of rent, Lord. In the ledger it is written that Helge worked twenty tagwerk of your land. For that he paid rent. Yet, when we walked his tilled lands yesterday we found he works at least thirty and five for which he paid the rent to Markward. He admitted to it under questioning." Bring him forth then, so we may come to the bottom of this." Pelle and Gebhardt went to fetch their prisoner who looked.