.. now ... regularly? Having sex with someone all the time?” He steered into our driveway.“That’s not what I said at all.”“Tell me what you ...have done!”“I don’t ask you to tell me!”The garage door closed behind us and we continued to sit in the car.“Will we have sex together?” he asked.“We have. A few times. Perhaps we can ... when we BOTH feel like it ... as friends. Am I making any sense?”“It is so weird I can’t even answer.”“Any weirder than your affair?” I said rather viciously and began to. "Sara saw that everyone, including herself was naked. The man picked up a water hose and started spraying Peter, Charlie, and Detra.Peter started sputtering, then Detra, and Charlie just blinked. "Ah, I see that everyone is awake now. I'm so glad that we could all get together like this. I have been so wanting to meet all of you, since I learned about you. I suppose you wonder why you are all here, especially chained up like you are?"Sara burst out, "What is the meaning of this? Why are we all. Herded... men with women. The only difference was I had not yet felt one of the whips which were wielded with such casual cruelty by the brutes who guarded us. Lyria, my closest companion at Court, had been similarly spared, why was this? Never, never shall I forget being made a human figurehead for one of their ships! Could anything more barbaric? Chained for hours, aching in every muscle, just above the foaming sea. Then to be mocked and jeered at by the mob lining the port wall. I could have. My reputation will be in ruins and I will go out of business. No, the auction continues. Now as far as being American men is concerned, you must do yourselves a favour and rid yourselves of that fanciful notion. You are certainly not men anymore and as for being American, well as far as I can see you have no legal identity whatsoever ? you do not even officially exist unless I decide to make it so". The former men listened in abject horror, beginning to realise that there was really no way out.