<strong>Susan Cochrane<br/>In a Bar's booth<br/>Starting to relax... and starting to key up, but in a difffernt way.</strong><br/>Mara smiled, thinly, and patted her hand.<br/>"Indeed I'm not", she agreed. "Maybe I'd grab a sub and show you later."<br/>Why was she looking into Susan eyes so intently while saying this?<br/>"But for two things you're wrong. First, I usually forbid my subs to go to the doctor. The punishment is to be felt, if it's to be remembered....and I want them to retain it, because I hate having to punish people. It just might become necessary, sometimes!"<br/>Her hand was still on Susan's when she added.<br/>"Second, these guys on the stage aren't amateurs, at all!"<br/>It was just at this moment, as if to accentuate her words, that one of the subs got slapped with a whip. The woman that did so didn't just strike, she entangled his neck with it, and pulled, dropping him on his knees.<br/>The crowd cheered.<br/>"She wouldn't try this with just about anybody", Mara explained casually, nodding towards the spectacle. "But these two know each other, and how much each of them can take."