?Margaux went to the mantel where she picked up her Irish Blackthorn Shilleagh cane. She walked over to me, tapping it in one palm, her breasts heavin...g.?"Isn't an evening of whippings, forced cocksucking and servitude enough to break you?" she asked, as she descended on me. "Such a shame"?WHACK! WHACK! The Blackthorn cane slashed my bare buttocks, and did a drumroll on my narrow shoulders. ?As she chased me with the swinging cane, I began gulping down the various cigarette laden cocktail. ..”I was shocked. It was clearly a feminine version of my first name ... but was it intentional? I shot a glance up at Mercedes.She smiled and nodded. She’d named her daughter after me. I was a little shaken. Mercedes mouthed the word, “Later... , “ to me. Most assuredly, I was going to need to know how this came about.“ ... How old are you, Mattie,” I asked, that being the second question all adults ask a child just introduced them.“Three!” she answered quickly. She knew all the questions too.. Ellerie whispered indistinct words, and launched three darts of light at the man in the lead. The red-eye paused but didn’t fall, so she cast the same spell again, killing him. Gregor shot at the next man’s leg. He hit, and his target collapsed to the ground, but continued crawling toward them.Katrin stopped playing. “It’s not working!” she exclaimed.Shavala glanced up at the sky, but there wasn’t enough cloud cover to be of any help, so she handed her bow to Katrin and stepped in front of the. It’s a veiled call for the rise of Scottish nationalism. We must counter this nonsense, especially in war time. Not only do we have to worry about events on the continent, we have to deal with the Suez Canal and Africa too. We have operations going on, west of Egypt along the coast against Turkish troops, not to mention the Anglo-Egyptian Darfur Expedition. Of course, we are doing everything possible to stay away from the heart of the Sahara desert,” the Brigadier explained, as if he was giving.