News of the support from Demonia,Terrellia and Lyconia quickly spread from Hive to Hive as the SpiderQueens were informed.Dorri held Shastarr's elbow ...as he led her behind Tarriana and Natani whowere being shown the Palace. As they reached the Throne room Dorrigasped seeing the head at the foot of the throne."It's a stone carving," he whispered to her. "But it does indeed lookvery realistic."Preen, Trace and Deirdre were busy together coordinating things witheach other. One or the other would. He and Cal were riding side by side, neither had spoken since the incident at the river. They looked back to see Beth coming up on her horse and Cal dropped back to ride beside the wagon so Tom and Beth could talk.“Tom, you’re not mad at me and Callie are you? I know we laugh and have fun but we didn’t mean to cause any trouble.”“I’ll never be mad at you Paleface, you did nothing wrong, neither did Callie. I almost killed those two men for what they did, the next man to touch you will. " Strange as it may seem, I had simply accepted Collette's version of how Mandy became her slave.Immediately Mandy looked stressed. "Ahhh . . . well Mistress must have covered it I'm sure. Nothing more to tell." Mandy was more than a little nervous and I was puzzled about why."Ah, but of course there is. What were your feelings, your motivations? Those are things Collette can't know." I was still hoping to gain some insight on how the two most important women in my life met. Collette had told. . to ... damn. I fucked up.”Beth said, “Let me guess. Conversion tables. Just like you forgot about the difference in planetary rotations, when you told us you were 14, and you’re actually 17 if you’d been born on Earth, you forgot to convert from whatever temperature scale your Dad used.”I put my head in my hands. “That may have been a mistake, letting them play with it. I’m not blaming you for that, SJ. I really fucked up with this one.”“Are you kidding? I told them it was patented, and we.