<span style="color: #5900b3">"Then you're going to live a rather painful life with me until you do learn. I am and I always will be fair in my punishments, and I will never beat you, but you will learn that I accept nothing but absolute perfection. Your misgivings are going to cause trouble at home if you can't learn to keep your mouth shut. There's going to be an ever increasing number of women at home who give themselves to Ashia, and I won't protect you if they decide to beat your ass for mouthing off to them." </span>Vyre placed one hand on Anna's shoulder and gave it a firm squeeze.<span style="color: #5900b3">"I can get more gold, I can't get another Varianna. Life is precious, metals, gems, rocks... they mean nothing." </span>She looked down at the Gnome and shook her head.<span style="color: #5900b3">"It's my birthday and she's trying to find something nice for me, but has never had money to spend before. I would also like to get something for my pet, a nice collar or maybe even a choker. It's a fairly scrawny beast but loyal to a fault."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>