The colonists were Naturals, eschewing technology in favor of an agricultural civilization. The settlers deliberately eradicated all knowledge of the ...other worlds in their histories, and, not surprisingly, became isolated and regressed to a feudal society. The world was now roughly equivalent to the Dark Ages of Earth in its warlike nature and level of technology. The colonists were assumed in Confederation Intelligence to have perished very soon after their arrival, and the recent rediscovery. Giovanni smiled at me sheepishly from behind it. "Where are the rest?" Worn out." Ivan snickered."Yeah." Sean hid his own grin. "I guess they all played to hard."One of the women laughed. "OMG! That Ian is a trip! At one point, I think he actually -" she stopped and looked at me. "I think he had a lot of fun." One of my employees do something inappropriate?" I asked but no one seemed willing to answer."Someone did something damn inappropriate last night." One of the guys laughed. "They were. He told me to take them to my room and to put anything that was mine in the bags,starting with my clothes.When I said I was done he inspected my room and said he would take the bags out to the curb,,but wanted me to walk next to him .He walked slowly and stoppe after dropping each bag at the curb to talk for a minute,,like he was resting,but told me it was to let the neighbors see me and he hoped someone would drive by and stop.After the last bag was with the others he told me that from now on. " Maybe," I said as I thought. "Do you feel up to a little experiment?" If you are wondering if this also means I can get further away from you before I have a terrible headache, then yes, I want to explore that a little. I mean I do have a job I would like to keep, Master, and I can't do that if I have to be touching you all the time."So we started doing a few experiments with me sitting at the table and her walking away from me. When she was out the front door and down the sidewalk a block, I.
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