Pretty Boy listened to the conversations, remaining silent. He looked at the others in the room, examining their positions, the way they carried themselves. All had meaning to his eyes. Orcus had taught him well... How the tables have turned for the better! Once it was the whore who was under Orcus, and now it was he who is under the whore. He looked at them closely.<em>Which one will he give me to pleasure?</em>he wondered, as he was sure he would. Many thought of the whore as a female. Some knew it was not. But for him, she will always be a male, for he spent many hours pleasuring her with his back side, and non on top. That was the forbidden one's job.<br/>There was a lot of information to gather here, but how should one do that without giving out too much?<br/>"We should consider carefully, master... An alliance such as he offers is fragile. There is no  guarantee that, if the time comes, anyone would actually come to another's aid. Delicate mechanisms must be worked out to ensure that such a thing works in our favor..."