The Keepers spoke to us after that. They didn’t like it that we were talking in our native language. Rose apologized and I followed her lead.

We spent the rest of the afternoon with Rose teaching me about the games the men like to play in the evenings. She said her men thought it was fun sometimes to let her play with them. If I got good my owners might Let me play with them, too. That gave me plenty of incentive to pay attention.

Late in the afternoon Rose’s owners came home. They took us to the bathhouse and then fed us. They didn’t say anything about what had happened this morning. The men acted just like they always did.

As I lay in bed Later that night, I thought about my owners. I wondered how much longer they would be gone. Hopefully the women wouldn’t hurt or keep them this time.

When sleep finally took me I was worrying about the women. My sleep was fitful and full of horrible nightmares. When I awoke I was glad to be out of my dreams, they had been awful.

Rose and I didn’t go back to the Keeper’s the next day. We stayed in her owners’ apartment with our own men to watch us. In the late afternoon she sewed and I watched out the window.

are the men usually gone for a coupling?”

told me, “two or three

odd mine aren’t back

kidnap men from a coupling. Honestly, that’s when they are least Likely to be taken,” Rose said watching

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fly away with him when another larger woman attacked them. The women seemed to be fighting over

protected the

shook her head, “I don’t know what they were doing. We all waited thinking the man

sewing. The larger woman was probably protecting a man she owned, just no one knew it. He must have

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