Jade Tao stumbled back, clutching her crotch, dropping her wooden practice sword to the floor of Mistress’s atrium. xxx I cuddled with Justina on the bed, trying to find a way to hurdle my own fear. The crowd roared again, and I felt the anger swell in me. This one took me more violently, compelled me to undulate through my hips and breasts like a belly dancer, my belly flattening to a pale expanse with the exaggerated arch of my back. She parted the Earth Former’s slender legs, but a patterned, porcelain hand stopped her. Go back. When the suns broke, and the worlds split, I found her. “I think Justina’s right; it’s an abstraction. She gazed after me with slightly-parted lips, and eyes filled with regret, but that evil mask strobed across her portrait,
