She had skill in making things.“Krab, accept Master Theophil into your apprenticeship,” Carsina prayed as she knelt before it. “Share with him a...ll the secrets you have learned. He devoted his life to his craft. He learned all he could in this world and is ready to study the techniques of the next. Your time will not be wasted, Krab. He will drink in all you know. He will work hard to master your techniques, to devise and construct machines for the use and benefit of all.”My tail twitched. What. Months ago her six year old daughter started having intense bouts of sadness. At first the mother was upset and irritated at the girl, but she soon started to become concerned. Her mother had taken her to a few child psychologists, but none were able to pinpoint the exact cause, though most agreed she was suffering from an intense feeling of loss. A few, at first, thought it might be attributed to the divorce of her parents, but that had happened a couple years back, and this intensity of. I was still working at Intel because they were funding some of my expenses in school and I was working on a project to make the equipment even smaller.The date was a complete disaster.I had even brought two "rough rider" condoms in my purse to inspire me to some type of orgasm like I had read about in Cosmopolitan magazine. I was not really quite sure what that would entail but according to the reports from several other readers, it was something that I certainly did not want to deprive myself. ......We get to the hotel. Its one of the fanciest hotels in Bangkok. He puts $1500 on the nightstand."That's half. You get the other half after you're done."I count the money out and I start to get really excited. That's the most I've ever made. I wonder what he wants to do to me.He tells me to have a seat on the bed. He comes around the side and pulls out a blindfold and a length of rope."Don't worry," he says. "We'll be nice."He gives me a firm slap on the face. I should be more scared, but.