Master Evan stretched out on his back and lay his head on my lap closing his eyes. It was such a temptation to stroke him when he lay there, I don’t know why. My fingers ran across his forehead and he smiled.

“We understand this feeling, Ciara,” Master Damien said simply.

They really did understand, in a way. Once they had been free, at least in their minds. Now they were bound to a powerful Mistress. She determined everything about their lives, because they could not resist her strength. It was much the same for me.

The bond hurt when I held myself apart from them. My head ached and I felt a little nauseated. The disagreement brought me pain. Feeling Like I had been was not healthy for me. Tucking the anger far away I allowed their thoughts to flood into me.

They were right, I did feel better now that they were close. I took comfort from their presence. The tears slowly dried as we sat there.

The floor was cold and hard, not an ideal place to sit. When I finally came to that conclusion Master Evan Lifted off of me and Christof picked me up. They walked with me cradled in Christof’s arms back to the bed and Laid me down.

Damien lay in front of me and he watched me intensely. I had yelled at him and argued with him in the dream. He hadn’t liked it and was frankly irritated with me.

Damien,” I told

lips to mine. I was forgiven. Damien had no desire

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hid. Rightful indignation had no place here, I knew that. The discomfort it had brought proved it.

against my back, warming where I had been sitting on the floor. The others did not totally understand how I felt, Christof understood and had no anger about it. In the back of his mind

pulled up and over me and I fell back

just wouldn’t go away. It was probably because Nu-reeh had said I should be able to read. That comment had really stuck with me. On this

front of me. I recognized it at the symbol for the compound I had come from. It was

isn’t,” Master Kein said from

familiar. It was on the outside of the shop they

out, “is

The second part referred to what the shop sold and the last part referred to where the shop

us back to the place in the Child Keepers where they had learned language. We sat at the benches as Master Kein slowly taught me

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