<strong>Tsade ~ lily noon day 1 office</strong><br/><br/>Tsade made a final memo then logged off the desk screen. He rose from the desk and moved where she stood. His finger to the ring at her neck. He clipped the leash then cuffed her wrists in front of her.<br/><br/>He looked her over one more time before turning his back and opening the door, "Come."<br/><br/>There was no ceremony. The secretary gave him salutations as he walked past her desk and out his office door.  It was thru the check points to he elevator. Down to Level 3. Around the Aquarium, the round about which was heavy with foot traffic.<br/><br/>They were moving inside a wave of people down a long hall way. Other sounds filled the hall as they passed entrances to other places. There was even the sound of barking at some point. All of which he ignored as he kept going straight for what seemed like twenty minutes.<br/><br/>The sign ahead read Department of Dance. He turned there. Mr. Throckbottle would be waiting.<br/><br/>Tsade did not care if she knew how to dance. Mr. Throckbottle was see that she could. Tsade pushed open the one side of a double door. Once inside he turned and removed the cuffs from Lily's wrist but left her on the leash.<br/><br/>The room had a mirror down the length.  A bar along the mirror and three rows of four girls across. The music was blaring and a tall thin man sporting a cardigan tired by the sleeve round his neck clapped his hands together as he call out above the fast music.<br/><br/>"One-and-two-and-step-and bend-and- Jullian head! Rachael arabesque!"<br/><br/>It went well for six beats then seemed to fall apart as the dancers hesitated and stumbled into one another trying to remember what came next.  The dance Master ran to the box on the stool<br/><br/>"STOPPPP!!" he howled.<br/>It was silent but for the panting. "Take five!"<br/><br/>It was then that Tsade cleared his throat. Mr. Throckbottle turned in the way a pole dancer pivots, toward the sight of money.<br/><br/>"Mr. Tsade! Always a pleasure," Humphrey Throckbottle said, critically eyeing the object at the end of the man's leash.<br/><br/>"Hello Choreographer,"Tsade replied holding out Lily's leash.<br/><br/>"Ahh... a new pupil," Humphrey said and dashed to the girl.<br/><br/>He whipped out a red permanent marker from his pocket and squatted at her feet. Several strokes with the marker on each of lily's feet. He stood and pointed at his work.<br/><br/>"L is for left foot. R is for right foot." Throckbottle told her. "Call me Mr. Throckbotttle and stand in the middle of the first line facing me when I call the girls back to practice."<br/><br/>Then he released her leash from her collar and held the end out to Tsade.<br/><br/>"She will be ready for pick up in two hours," Humphrey informed Tsade. "Or shall I have her brought to you?'<br/><br/>Tsade's eyes narrowed almost imperceptively as he took the now empty other end of the leash.<br/><br/>"I'll return for her," Tsade said as if this was not a problem and then he left.<br/><br/>Lily was now in Mr. Throckbottle's skilled hands.<br/><br/>