Don't I, Tina?" Isoftly swatted her butt and she shook her head then buried it into herbear in embarrassment. "She doesn't get too far on there, thoug...h. Theregression treatment limits her vocabulary to mostly baby words." Wait, that explains your first few greetings to me," said Austin. "Waswondering about that!"I had forgotten that Tina had initiated our first chat! Luckily I'dintercepted my phone before she texted more gibberish. That means littleTina must have a thing for Austin. I mean,. “We do not lie. You either voluntarily accept those terms or we arrange to take what you know anyway,” I replied. “It is only honour alone that prevented us from simply taking what we want.”For a few seconds, Oonagh simply glared at me as I sat there in seeming indifference, before her eyes dropped to the sheet of paper and she read the terms.“Why this, ‘escorted at all times’?” she asked.“A rebel group called the Sons of Druchii consider you the architect of their downfall. You may be in. Now my curiosity got to me and Icouldnt help wondering why someone would lock up an empty room.So I wentover and kicked the pile of material on the floor.It moved,I stood backthinking it may be a dog or something else with big teeth.Nothing happend,soI carefully pulled away the cloth strips as it turned out to be and revealeda naked young black boy of around ten years.He stank of his own excrementand was covered in bruises and whip marks he apeared to be drugged andonly semi-concious at. I thought you might want to come over and have something to eat. By the way, my name is Julianne. My friends call me Jools.” I said, “My name is Jon. And thank you for the lunch invitation. You’re right about me not being able to cook here for a while. I planned to order a pizza or something when I got hungry but I’d love to grab a burger and meet some of the neighbors. By the way, congratulations on your graduation, but honestly, I think you look way to young to graduate from high school.