Rachel nodded and sighed softly.<span style="color: #0000ff">"Karrie, we will need some clean towels, water, possible a sharp knife and a few healthy stones, just in case."</span>she nodded and managed a small smile.<span style="color: #0000ff">"of course."</span>she frowned and tipped Ana's face up to her.<span style="color: #0000ff">"if you ever insult me by calling yourself lowly again i will spank you so hard you cannot sit down for a week, are we clear? do you think i would honor you with my touch if i felt you were lowly in any way?"</span>she nodded and smiled a little.<span style="color: #0000ff">"i think The'kal plucked the images of both your collar and Karrie's choker from my mind, i had envisioned something exactly like these for both of you."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #4dffff">"you are being paranoid again... Viden would gain nothing by betraying us, in fact they would die horribly and slowly if they harmed you and unleashed Order's wrath. i don't really want this, i want to help you and they have promised that this is the best way i can help you. they also promised that helping you is the best and really the only way to help Order. and even if i do die in doing this it will help you and i already wish to die, i am fine with achieving both of my goals with a single action."</span>she relaxed a little and nodded.<span style="color: #4dffff"> "and if i could feel these things i would happily stay with you the normal way... but our people have used every method of healing we know of and none of it has helped me. i have come to accept it as the price the universe took for me to free our people. i know you will live well, you always have and you always will, it's just who you are." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>