“Athos yet again!” She smiled, picking out the voice her keeper, her owner, the man who’s thrown upon the cage door and smacked her soundly on ...the bottom with a warning to make herself scarce before he let loose ‘the hounds’. She knew, listening to them as the admired her in her cage, that they were old friends of her owners, comrades in arms who’d shared great adventures fraught with danger. “I cannot believe we are having such trouble sniffing out your girl, d’Artagan!” “Did I not warn you. Odder, she found herself overlooking the new kid again, like she hadbefore the feeling had occurred.Until a month later, when it happened again.This time, she fought through the grief, trying to focus on what wascausing it, and when the feeling started to fade a couple of days later,she realized the feeling was familiar.But the last time she had felt it, it had come from the dead kid, the dayshe kissed it.She remembered the cycle the dead kid had followed, how sometimes itseemed more alive, and. She leaned more closely against him as he added to himself, in more ways than you can imagine."Speaking of women," Isaiah said, cocking his head toward their blond friend. "Alrek strikes again. A new gal, she raises sledding dogs, moved into town shortly after you two left, and he didn't waste any time welcoming her to the neighborhood." They all laughed as Alrek's cheeks flushed."But get this," Isaiah continued, reaching for another cookie. "I think she's got him star struck. He hasn't been. You have been the object of my fantasies since I was old enough to start getting hard ons. I saw a chance to get you on this trip and I took it." But why all the others?" Made for better video. You are more likely to want to bury that video than you would be to suppress one of just you and me." Suppress? I was raped and that video shows just who it was who raped me. You don't dare let anyone see it." I didn't hear you say "stop" on that tape. Not once did I hear a "please don't." All I heard.