<div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/l6rWRqD.jpg)</div><br/>Tacita and Alissa, it turned out, had a very similar view of the situation.<br/>Unfortunately this was about how each of them wanted the majority of their new mistress' attention and things might have escalated more than just a quiet little glare from the younger British woman as she cuddled against the wonderful warmth of Kae but that was when the threat came in.<br/>Tacita had been encouraged to have minimal interest in anything male, but there was something different, odd and potentially dangerous about the man that entered. She hadn't been taught to handle men, perhaps, but handling threats was well within her former duties and so she waited to see if those skills were going to be needed.<br/><br/>In the meantime, she had been asked a question and she knew better than to give anything other than a prompt and complete answer.<br/>"I was ... damaged," she replied quietly, the flush on her cheeks now one far more of shame than shyness. "Due to my own failure. Why would she ... why would<em>anyone</em>want to keep me?"