“...What’s up?” I ask them.“Well...” Emily begins.“It’s not the level of… self awareness...?” Xandra looks to Emily.Emily shrugs and... nods. “Yeah. That sounds right.”“It’s not the level of self awareness that we usually see from… new arrivals.”“Interesting. Let’s table that for a moment though,” I say, “and get back to the thing you said about ‘feeling like this is the mainland’. What does that mean?”Xandra looks at me, and pauses. When she speaks, it’s obvious that she is choosing her words. Neha looked at Pravin who was sitting in the reclining chair.He signaled her to open the door. Neha did so. Vijay was mesmerized to see Neha in that gown. Her cleavage was attracting him. She had not worn a bra. He just stood there looking at her. Neha smiled and asked him to get in.As Vijay got in, Neha shut the door. Vijay didn’t know what to do. He was very awkward to see Pravin sitting there. Pravin realized that Vijay won’t open up. So he asked for an excuse and went to bathroom. Once. He then gently placed Nathan’s feet through the wooden stocks at the bottom and his hands through the ones at the top. With a click he locked them into place, leaving Nathan helpless and unable to move.“Oh, I should have removed the leather briefs,” said Nathan thinking about how he wouldn’t be able to remove them while he was locked in the stocks.Jack dismissed him as he heard someone come down the stairs.“Hi Jack, and I presume this is Nathan,” said Ryan as he walked off the final step. “I. The close quarters came with some loss of privacy, my husband and I could no longer spontaneously have sex after work or in the morning because it would be obvious so like parents with children we were limited to after 10 or 11 when we called it a night and went to bed. We also got used to not wearing a lot of clothing in front of each other in the morning especially. It was not uncommon for all three of us to exit the bathroom in a towel and in a few cases be seen in our underwear. I am not.