From Girl to Woman

Sakmeta found me at the stream and so did Kai and the slave blue. I was playing with my flute again .. but none seemed to mind. Sakmeta asked me for a request. I told her she could ask one of me and she leaned to whisper it into my ear. Now a woman whispering against your ear can not be a bad thing and I enjoyed every moment of it. The whispering ...

She told me she needed her ring so she could pay a debt of a kiss. Well ... sounded damn important to me. I certainly would want to get paid if it were I .. so I asked her of whom she owed this serious debt.

She did not want to tell me .. I asked her how badly she wanted my help. She wanted it rather badly because she coughed up the name of the Year Keeper. Now I have not met the Year Keeper yet but I have heard of him and a more arrogant impatient Tuchuk I have not heard of in a long time. Which of course made me think he was a perfect Tuchuk .. to fit right in with the rest of us arrogant bastards. Anyway ...

There was nothing for it but to tease the shy bird Sakmeta .. mostly because it is too much damn fun to resist.

I asked her .. if she realized she was fair game after she had her ring .. what would she do if I mated her? She told me pertly that the women would most likely slit her throat in the night .. and I laughed ... as if the women have any say in who I mate. But her answer was cute and amused me as she side stepped my teasing. I asked what I got out of the deal. Where was my cut? She told me pertly .. again ... that she would make sure I got a kiss.

I laughed again .. I know Tuchuk. I asked her who she was going to get to kiss me and she was quite put out that I knew exactly what she had in mind. She said blue .. which was much better than I expected for I figured it was going to be some greasy fat kettle slut. I asked Kai if she would do the ringing and to make sure that Sakmeta was ready .. though I figured if Sakmeta's mother had sent her to me she was indeed ready.

Noya had called across the fires to me to ask of Mayala's ring. I told her that Mayala was indeed ready and that it only awaited Noya's time and consent to be placed.

Two more women who have stepped from girl to woman. I am starting to feel old.