We broke into the entry room to the holding area, at almost exactly the same moment as the lead element from Team Two.The guys in the room were a bit ...more prepared for us – a lantern was on, and they at least already had their guns in their hands. Not that it helped. One got off a shot – but it was up into the ceiling.An old lady huddled in the corner of the room watching almost expressionless as we swept the area and began extracting the badly abused girls from filthy cramped cells that were. You will learn not to do anything unless your are told and then onlywhat you are told." As he spoke the last word he flicked the whip and the tip of itdug into my ball sack and sent a shiver of pain up my groin. Iwhimpered and said, "Yes master only what I am told." "Stand up." I stood up. "Lay down on your stomach." I laid down. "Kiss my foot." I slide across the floor on stomach and kissedhis foot. "Suck on my toes and lick between them." I began to suck histoes and. You would be well advised to apply for an emergency grant from Welfare."Something very strange was going on here, Ben thought as he hung up the phone. The treatment had helped him, as his back pains were less intense and he could actually unbend a bit further than before when he stood up. But who the bloody hell was Corliss Marlowe, and what was she doing to him? Four days later the bell rang. Damned if it wasn't that Corliss woman again. Should he let her in? Ben hesitated, torn between. ‘Prepare a defensive perimeter. The police will soon be on their way and I do not wish to be interrupted before we are through here.’ ‘As you order Mistress,’ the soldier says. Without further notice he is up on his feet running past her, whistling for attention from the other Black Dragon members. ‘You’ve got nowhere to run Sternigan,’ she says to herself. * THE CHÂTEAU D’ESPOIR’S VAULTED LIBRARY IS now running on emergency backup generators. Whether the power was cut by the attacking soldiers.