The land will be cleared inside three weeks." Get to work! I see from the scars on your chest and stomach that you have already been branded! Or was t...hat the Chief Torturer's work? Golden Guard Roberta!" If you know who I am, then you must also know that I was tortured last year. Tortured unjustly, I might add! Please believe me when I say that I am innocent of any wrongdoing, save that of having been wild and undisciplined for a while for which I was well punished many times. I am a loyal. Smiling smugly at my plight, she pulled outher makeup kit and re-did my face, exaggerating the lips, putting biground circles of rouge on my cheeks, raising my eyebrows, darkening myeyelashes, and even putting a sprinkle of freckles across my nose! Then,to rub it in, she held up a compact mirror close to my face, forcing meto study my pig-tailed, doll-faced, baby-ish features close-up until thetrue shamefulness of my confinement and condition had sunk in!"There!" she leered. "Isn't she just the. The streets were awash with activity with every young male hoping to bag a female pirate for the night. Although the girls were feisty and violent on the open seas, the attention paid to them by fawning boys in a foreign land meant that many were happy to offer a night of debauchery.We had barely walked the one mile to village and passed two other couplings engaging in outdoor sex in the undergrowth. Tara kept trying to keep to the shadows.'I am a Lieutenant you know. I should make you give me. They made a very generousgesture. They promised that if their business took off as they hoped,and they received share options as bonuses, they would transfer 20% ofthem to me. Gerry said he thought that was only right, and in thespirit of our original agreement. There was no contract for this, andnothing could compel them to do it if they changed their minds when thetime came, but knowing them as I now did, I believed they would keeptheir promise. Time would tell. Meanwhile I could expect.