MRS HEMLOCK, HOUSEKEEPER<br/><br/>I entered (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=82889.msg3659722#msg3659722) and found only one occupant, the red-haired young woman whom Master Alistair had acquired earlier today. She was blindfolded, bound and tied upright to one of the bed's posts. She wore a thin shift dress... and by the movements of her body beneath it, was without undergarments and she was screaming her bloody head off.<br/><br/>It was more than likely that she had not even heard me enter, so striding across the carpet I drew out my 'tongue' in one swift practised motion, coiling one end of it in my right fist and without any warning lashed the leather strap hard across her mid-section below her breasts.<br/><br/><strong>"Shut. Up!"</strong>I said sternly,<strong>"Any more of that, my girl and I'll give you something to scream about."</strong>