Doesn't matter to me."Turning around, I marched out of her room, pulling the door closedforcefully behind me. It slammed with an echo that reverberate...d down thehall. However, I distinctly heard my sister call me an "overbearing bitch"through the heavy wood.Sighing, I walked back downstairs and through the living room toward thekitchen. Just as I was about to pass through the curved archway, my gazefell onto the fireplace and the row of framed photos arranged on thewooden mantle above it.Almost. The handle slipped from Guard Chou Ferk’s hand. He tried to grasp it, but the sound wave disoriented his senses and his fingers clenched an instant too late.“No! No! No! No! How can it be... ? He is in the Mortal Enlightenment state!”He could not accept it. The ego of no conceited Guard in the Rakmon Penitentiary would accept a prisoner surpassing him or her!And what it meant to be in the Mortal Enlightenment State? The culmination of the Martial path and the induction of Evolutionary Ascension. I recognized it as one I had given her many years before for one of our anniversaries. I didn’t know how I felt about that. I was speechless when I saw her. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Her easy grace was apparent and she moved with confidence. She stood sideways to me while I let myself enjoy the vision. I didn’t want to move from there because I was content just to watch. But she turned, again as if she sensed me standing there. ‘Well hello Mr. Executive. You look very. Naturally, Alcaeon was pleased when he returned to the baths and found the courtesan in the heated pool. While most Malacanian women bathed at home and in private for reasons of custom, the hetairai were encouraged to mingle freely with men in the public bathhouses. Zoe wasn't the only woman present there. Between courtesans and regular prostitutes, not to mention slave girls, females were hardly scarce."Would you like to do more than bathe together, kyros?" the courtesan suggested as the.