.. but, why?" It's the Night Skies Hotel. Something odd is going on. They're notresponding to or sending hails." May the goddesses be with you, mistre...ss." You, too, Sonora. You, too."A gateway opened up, and Basima's command Chimera disappeared into it.Sonora shook her head as the gateway snapped shut behind the Chimera."We've still got work to do, Tera," the matriarch signaled hercounterpart on the ground, firing on a nearby Dragonfly and shieldingher eyes as a thunderous explosion tore it. Having taught English in Europe, during a backpacking stint after college, and having loved it, I figured I’d try teaching as a career.But, after getting licensed as a high school teacher, I was having difficulty finding full-time teaching positions, even though I had an MBA and prior teaching experience.All I could get was part-time substitute work... A classmate of mine from grad school, in a similar situation, had been teaching English in Asia and encouraged me to try it.Since I’ve practiced. People were saying we looked as though we could win both competitions, that would be great. And that we made a good pair, could have a future together as partners.Nick had run me home in his car a couple of times after matches and even after generally messing about at the tennis club, he is such a cool guy, but never looked at me and never tried anything on with me. Not that I would have said no, in fact I’d have been more than happy to say yes, but nothing like that was even dreamt about.. My arousal was growing with every second.I tried to move my arms to cover myself, that’s when it dawned on me that i was shackled to my bed, I muttered under my breath, Red asked in a mockingly sweet voice, “What did you say?”“Well ‘Played’” I replied, “so are we to exchange pleasantries, or shall we get on with it?”“Perhaps one last round of pleasantries are in order” she said, “Such as what you may call me, which is to say you may address me as Venatrix, and my companion is Dionysius”.