In the port city of Coropori, Alef sells the wagon and horse and pays me. I search the market hard until I find a well made sword. I talk the price down by also buying two knives, one for each of Noriko and I, and the belts to go with them but it's an expensive sword. I need to have one that won't fall apart when I run into Keimos again.
Noriko made Alef buy her yarns and knitting needles when we went shopping in Steny. She's used up the yarn she bought then and I ask if we should go looking for more. I'm much happier having her knit than itching to run her fingers through either my hair or Alef's while we're on the wagon.
I'm a little surprised when she shakes her head and asks for fabric again instead. She'll have to buy thread and needles again. She got the scissors from the de Gilenee's shop as part of the fifty percent off deal Alef gave me.
This time she asks me what color I would like to see on her. That pleasantly surprises me, that she would consider my preferences. I tease her for a bit, but then get serious, also wanting to know what would look good and wanting her to learn more about me since she wants to know.
When I've picked a color, she then compares colors to that color and to me until she picks a complementary color for what she'll make me. When her shopping is done, she gives me a kiss of gratitude. I'm happy to do it to see her content, and for the personal reason I said before.
"Hands busy" is as important to me as the strength she's been learning in keeping her emotions calm and under the surface. Because she's been more internally peaceful I can again allow us to be closer together. I don't have to work so hard to maintain control of both of us. We both still flicker with emotions that rise above the surface, but that's manageable.
She also "anchors" faster now. She says that's what she feels like when she waits for me to come to an understanding myself while she stands firm in her own emotions or beliefs. On the outside when she does it, her Teacher comes to the fore, looking calmly at whoever or whatever is trying to unbalance her. Often it greatly unnerves the person trying to affect her. I'm glad it's not only me.
I'm trying to let it happen without worry. I've worried as long as I've known the Teacher was inside her that it would someday learn proper strength. Doctor Clairgeeta's lessons to her were lessons for the Teacher, and if I want to understand and move forward, I also need to allow the Teacher to grow in strength. It remains a calm strength, so that helps me relax as well.
Like I've learned to not fear, she's also learning it. When she anchors, the fear doesn't come. That helps me be able to quickly and calmly react the way I've already trained myself to. I've thought from early on that she already understands that power and strength come from gentleness, but this is more real. Was the Grey Bird master also a master of light like Doctor Clairgeeta?
We board a ship bound for Donya and Noriko must watch and learn everything about a sailing ship. She tells me privately she's never been in one. Honestly, I haven't either, so I follow her around and learn, too, but only act the bodyguard. She has to lie regularly to Glocia, who wants to know all sorts of things about living on an island. I'm sympathetic to Noriko, but what can we do? She's done a good job with keeping Glocia from being suspicious - better than I would have, likely.
Noriko and I spend our times apart to study. Usually she stands or sits near the railing in the center of the ship while I go to sit on the prow at the front of the ship where the wind plays with the sea. The best energy is there and I'm learning how to draw it into myself so I don't have to get so tired. All four of the energies I have the most affinity to are there. I'll try one more time when we reach land to see if I can tease earth energy out, but it won't matter if I can't, I think.
While Noriko rests from her practicing and studies, she sews the clothes to keep her hands busy. Then she practices watching me lightly and I catch her. We play back and forth in that way throughout the day. Sometimes I can tell she's just focused on me, feeling along the connection that lets us know where the other is. It's something I do without thought still, having learned it early to know where she was. I'm glad she's practicing it. Those times warm me, that she wants to know that I'm nearby.
I also spend a lot of time meditating on the most recent lessons the world of light wants me to have an understanding of. When I think I'm finally ready to face the world of light more directly, I go and find Noriko and bring her back to where I like to sit. She won't fall from here when she has me to hold her, which I want to do anyway since we've been separate most of the time until now, save at night. (The nights are also quiet and enjoyable.)
"Noriko, I think I'm ready to try to walk more in the light. Will you help me?" She nods and takes my hand in hers. Together we turn inward. Like the time in the wagon with Doctor Clairgeeta I go with her. She knows I'm with her this time. She takes us to the edge of the warm strength that's within her, where I saw her go down into it before. It's a sea of light and peace that is so very much like the ocean of power and strength that is within me.
We don't move from there. Noriko just lets me feel it and come to understand it in my own way. When I understand that it isn't something to fear, but can't keep the feeling of being uncomfortable at bay any longer we turn away and return to our bodies again, where we're still holding hands. Noriko smiles at me, proud of what I've been able to do. I shyly smile back. It seems like such a small thing to be proud of, but even I'm pleased I was able to stand in the middle of the light for so long.
"I go down into it when I'm practicing, Izark. Like you take your power and it fills you and then you use it to act on the world, I manipulate that." I didn't know it was that similar. I listen to her lesson with interest. "In there is where we talk to each other - that's at the surface. Under that is where we 'see' each other - the level the seers of this world use is my guess, although I've not tried to see anything other than what we've already been given to see of each other.
"Below that is the emotional connection. I can stand there and see into the full world of light, but it's like looking through glass. I still haven't found the door to cross over into it. It isn't really time yet - not until I've understood the sea itself, I think. And, ..." she hesitates, "I think I can't until you're ready to. I think you're on the other side of the door. Until you're ready, too, the door won't become visible to me. We walk there together already. At the nexus is the door that belongs to both of us. Do you understand?"
Because she sees it as up and down and I see it as forward and back, I wonder if she and I have to meet. I have to walk forward into the light far enough to reach where she's waiting to come down to meet me. I give a little internal laugh to that thought. It will be like I'm running to catch her as she falls off yet another building or cliff. Not really, but it makes me think that. I nod to let her know I understand as best I can at the moment.
"I'm not in a hurry," she reassures me. "I have a lot I'm still learning, and it takes a lot of strength and energy to carry that much power. Although you already know that," she blushes faintly. "So I'm working up my 'muscles', like you are with your powers." I understand that fully. I want her as strong as possible before the final confrontation. Practice is good.
I lean on my lifted knee to look out over the sea. "I think...if I can feel like I can go there, if I'm allowed to ...if I have ...permission, I guess, then I'll be ready." I'm referencing the sea of light that we stood beside. "I still carry the thought that I'm not worthy to be considered human or of the light. That I'm tainted and will bring darkness with me." That lesson ingrained in me from young childhood has been hard to remove, although I've come a long way to stand in that place today.
Noriko squeezes my hand to comfort and encourage me. I look back at her and smile gently to reassure her. "I'm working on that. Doctor Clairgeeta's words were very helpful to me in overcoming that. Knowing that I can choose, both from his words and Zena's thoughts...," I have to smile at her a larger smile, "...and of course your own patient determination, has finally given me enough hope to overcome my doubts. I still have to face them a little at a time, but it's much better than it was."
"I'm so glad, Izark," she says quietly. "I also found so much hope in his words. I'm so glad the world of light is helping us, and allowing us to help others at the same time." She lifts my hand and kisses the back of it and puts it to her cheek.
I take my hand back and pull her close to hold her, wanting my reward. It's peaceful to sit here together on this ship in the sea, like it was in the farming village. We are blessed again to have a time to learn and grow without worries.
-o-o-o-
Noriko and I are standing at the rail of the ship, on the main deck, when Glocia comes looking for us. "Roki wants to see you, Kizak," she says. I raise my eyebrow. He couldn't just come himself?
Noriko takes the back of my jacket and follows along. I look over my shoulder in surprise at her. She only does that when worried or if we're going into a place I may need to protect her. She just shrugs back. I leave it alone. I don't mind the company or closeness and if she needs it, who am I to argue?
We don't spend much time below decks with the other passengers, both preferring quiet and not wanting to have our faces too well known to everyone. Glocia takes us to where Alef is waiting outside a door to a room. Alef motions for me to enter the room and see what's going on inside. I step just into the room and Noriko lets me go and listens from behind me and Alef, who is leaning over my shoulder to speak into my ear quietly.
"See those men? They've been bullying the passengers into gambling with them. I've been watching and I'm pretty sure the dice are loaded. It's really awful." I sigh to myself. Alef really knows too well how to be a merchant and politician. I'll have to wait to hear what I need to hear.
"I didn't think gambling was allowed on the ship," I prompt him.
Alef directs my attention to another set of men huddled in the back of the room. "Those are the ship's personnel who have tried to stop it. They've been cowed and can't act."
"Doesn't the ship have security personnel?" I ask, playing along and guessing where this is going already.
The mark is about to fall. "It would sure be nice if someone claiming to be security stepped in and did something to end their intimidation."
"You're saying...?" I ask tersely. He has the capacity to do it himself, and the practice as commander of the guard.
"We've been offered a discount if you'd be willing to help out."
I pause irritated. "We if I..." At least he has learned I won't do it for free.
Alef defends himself (poorly) and with lots of smooth smiles. "Just use that nice new sword you bought yourself in town. It'll be easy for you...right?" He only wants to see me put on another display. It's irritating.
I don't answer him, only turn to walk back to our room. It's easier to get it over with than complain, but my sword is in my room since passengers aren't supposed to be carrying swords and one of them is - and using it to bully the passengers with.
I'm glad I'm already past both of them when Noriko kicks Alef in the ankle and turns her back on him to follow me, because my eyebrows jump up into my hair. I'm quite certain she gave him the same scowl she gave Barago, too. Alef protests that surely it was unnecessary.
She turns slightly to scathingly say over her shoulder, "If you can't just ask plainly and politely, stop getting him into things that you won't touch yourself, Commander." She turns her back angrily on him again.
I'm glad I'm in front of her because I'm laughing so hard I can hardly contain it, and she knows when I'm laughing silently. I don't need to have her feisty protecting ire redirected at me.
-o-o-o-
"Izark...," Noriko's been quiet since we left the hallway with Alef standing sheepishly tongue tied for once. She bites her lip as I finish tying on the bandanna she made for me first at the beginning of this sea voyage.
She stays silent, even as I reach for my sword belt. It isn't really like her to not say her words. Instead of picking up my sword belt, I reach for her and tilt her head up so I can see what she can't say. The worry is rising above her calm sea.
She covers my hand that's holding her head and the worry is in her sober eyes. "I'm proud of you, Izark, and I love that you help people naturally and easily. It's just...it's hard now to not be worried every time you say 'yes'. If even one of them learns something they shouldn't and wants revenge once we get to shore, we'll be running again."
I lean toward her and rest my forehead on hers so we're close enough to breathe each other's breaths. It's a small worry to me now. When we were first together I would have agreed with her. I send her my own peace and caring, trying to soothe her worry. She tries to allow it, but it isn't enough. She needs words, too.
"Each time, we have also been led closer to our goal," I tell her quietly what I've learned in my meditations. "You've said it yourself. When we choose to do good for others, the world of light helps us. Some things are just good or nice things to do and life continues normally. I'm happy to do those things, and I'd hate to miss the little thing that leads me to the next lesson from the world of light."
She taught it to me herself. She considers my words, then sighs and relaxes, giving me a nod to let me know she understands. I tip her head farther to give her a kiss. She gives it back to me, gently and long. When we separate, I'm slow to slip my hand off her face, promising us both a proper reward when this is over.
It isn't a large thing, but it is still being on public display. I despise that so much any reward for getting it accomplished is good. The reward of being with Noriko is better coin for me than cheaper fare for the ocean voyage. She'll also want the comfort when it's over. That's how she is.
I'm ready to go, but Noriko is standing in the way with an interesting expression on her face. As if she's making sure that the clothes she sewed were right or wrong. I'm not wearing what she made so I don't know why. She finally turns and walks with me out of the room, but she tugs on me instead of letting me go towards the room where the thugs are.
"Izark, presence is more important, I think. Let's go find a higher-up on the ship before you go." I'm confused but she smiles at me. "Your costume isn't quite completed."
Oh? I follow after her as I can only do when she gets like this. She has to ask many people of the ship's crew until she finds someone who has heavy boots they'll let me borrow for a few hours at most. Noriko makes me take off the soft lightweight boots I own and prefer and replace them with the heavy boots. They're a little large on me and as I walk they make loud clomping noises.
"Really, Noriko?" I'm quite unsure about this. She's walking by my side and carrying my boots.
She stops me and looks me over one more time, her eyes narrowed, again judging what she's seeing so that I squirm a little inside. "You know how I talk about this place being storybook to me?" I'm immediately captured. I want to hear more about that and I've forgotten to ask. I nod that I'll listen.
"In my world there are also moving pictures, [movies], that tell a story in picture, sound, and word. Like actors on a stage, but it's recorded and shown all over the world. How an actor dresses, the sounds their clothing make, how they wear them, all make the image the audience sees. What the audience sees determines what they believe." Ah. I've seen a few plays in my time as I've had to escort young ladies at times I'd rather not have. I've also had to play a few acts myself to escape them.
She's satisfied that I understand and continues. "You'll do more good by presenting to them a visual image of what you want them to see than if you try to do it by words alone. Let them see the fear before they hear it. You're already the strong, silent type. You don't have to be flowery in your speech, nor even convincing. Just be yourself - direct and threatening." She grins a teasing grin at me, already believing that most people who don't see me as only beautiful see me as threatening. "But let's set the visual impact first."
I consider what she's trying to do as she looks around, then moves. I patiently allow her to take my sword off of its belt. She picks up a small chain she's found, puts that through the belt loop on my scabbard, then attaches the chain to my sword belt. "Walk." I do so and have to fight a blush. Now I clop in my boots and the chain clanks. She nods, now that they'll hear me coming from the deck of the ship, not just down the hall. Won't they just run away before I can scold them?
She then takes her knife belt off where she wears it under the sash of her dress and puts it on me above my sword belt. Her knife is tucked back into her sash, so she won't be without it. "Do you know what a [pirate] is, Izark?" I shake my head, not having heard the word yet. "In this world, are there men who run ships that attack merchant ships, to steal their cargo and run and hide, either to keep it for themselves or to sell it for their own gain?"
I scowl. "Yes. They are called pirates."
Noriko nods and rehearses both words, mine and hers, to learn them. "That's the look I'm going for, Izark. They're feared in all worlds when people are on a ship. You aren't being one. You're being an officer of the peace, but I want the fear of the image of a pirate in their minds by the time you talk to them. If you're a pirate king, you outrank them, since they are pirate scum." She looks at me questioningly. "Do you understand? It is [psychological] mind warfare." She points to her temple.
I like that turn of phrase: "mind warfare". I might have to have her teach me the word that came before it. We don't have a word to describe what I've been trying my whole life to do to keep people from wanting to physically fight me. I look down at myself again to see the pirate king.
I summarize to see if I've understood correctly what she's trying to teach. "The image does as much beforehand to create the desired effect, so that the actions have the full effect wanted." I would have liked to have known and practiced this one helpful addition. Many of my fights might have been turned away if I had. It was sufficient, though, I suppose. It wasn't like I could afford extra trinkets just to chase off irritating buffoons.
Noriko lets me know I've understood. "So act like the pirate king from the moment you walk into the hall on the way to that room, so that you have the aura of one by the time you enter it. Be as annoyed as you want to be that the scum who should be obedient to you aren't. Then tell them off, show them they can't best the king, and threaten them if they don't behave from now on."
She grins again. "Be the pirate king who is pretending to be the ship's security officer so he isn't found out that he's on board to take over and they're threatening your plans to take it by butting in where they aren't wanted."
I find it both humorous and a little frightening that she enjoys this kind of play. Particularly when it isn't on a stage, but part of living a real life. To test and tease her, I push back just a little. "You like to pretend, Noriko. Maybe you should be an actress?"
She tosses her head and teases back. "I am an actress, Izark, remember? I'm the Fairy Queen, Treasure of the Dragon, Island Princess of the Gallant Knight."
I know she thinks she's teasing, and I suppose she is, but that's what's worried me this whole time. Because I don't rise to the tease, Noriko looks at me quizzically. I reach for her, not sure what I want to say but wanting to convey my concern for her. When my hand is on her shoulder, to hold her in place and to let her know I'm here with her, I ask mind to mind so others can't overhear us, "Noriko. Are you ever you while you're here?"
She understands my concern and is instantly sober. She answers honestly, "Izark, in my world I'm a teenage high school student, just trying to get decent [grades], hanging out with my girlfriends around the edges. I would never have done the amazing things I've done with you in this world there. Inside, I'm the same here or there, although I've learned strengths, fears, and worries here I probably wouldn't have learned for many more years there.
"If I were to act the high school student here I would already be dead. I haven't been that since you saved me from the flower insect in the sea of trees. ...I suppose I shouldn't have said I'm an actress. I really am those things here in this world with you, the same as I'm a high school student in my world.
"Except I really am the Awakening and I have to hide behind the other faces because that's how we keep me safe. So if there is ever a time I'm being the 'me' of this world, it's when I'm researching and practicing to find the world of light and using what little power that gives me. The same as you're only ever really Izark, the Sky Demon, when you're doing the same."
With a sharp breath, I pull back. That was like being stabbed by a blade to have her say that. I'm researching to not have to be the Sky Demon...but she isn't wrong. I let out the breath slowly, feeling where the truth is. If what we are is the two beings of lore and destiny who don't want to fulfill the dark prophecy, then we are what she's said. It's hard to accept it when said so plainly, but she isn't wrong. I must agree with her.
I'm surprised when a gentle scold is next. "Don't be sad about it Izark. That's not a good way to go through life. I like having fun with it, when I can, although I don't go to extremes. Reading, watching [movies], those things are entertaining and fun. So is acting, or there wouldn't be actors and actresses." My eyes go wide. She's telling me why she's willing to play the various parts. Not just for survival, not just for hope, but because there can be more if one openly acknowledges what one both is and isn't.
"This is one of your rare opportunities to have fun with it yourself. Be the pirate king to the hilt. Swagger, scowl, intimidate, threaten. You won't even get into trouble for it, because you've been asked to do it - and are round-about getting paid for it like a real actor." She gives me a wry look for that comment.
"I'll have just as much fun watching and cheering for you, and will reward you afterwards for a job well done. The pirate king always steals the beautiful maiden, after all, and she seduces him to the side of right and good in the end of the most romantic of the movies and stories of pirates." She gives me a flirtatious look, runs her finger down my jaw, and almost-kisses me, her teasing lips passing tantalizingly near my own. She suddenly has my full attention this time. She can play this part also?
I growl, very low and quietly, and grab her around the waist with my hands, holding her still. I don't know if I can match her, but I want to try for just one moment. I put my lips very near her ear. "You, Princess Noriko, ...are very much a handful. I think ...that I will have to take you to my cave when I return and teach you -" It's so hard to come up with words to match this play that I have to stop trying and laugh at her and myself. "It's so strange, Noriko ...but I understand."
I'm surprised again when she pauses and continues the lesson most seriously. "Izark, do you also understand that it's a defense for you? If you act it, you will be it. It will be a shield for you." She pushes me back so she can look me in the face. I know she used it this way, to shield herself from fear. "Being the Fairy Queen was a way to face the world so that I could have hope. Being the 'partner' of Izark is a way to face a man with a sword, or a monster, with strength instead of fear."
She points to her temple again. "I may know that I'm pretending, or acting, but when I do it, my body, my heart, my emotions believe it, and react accordingly. They all must be obedient to the mind. My heart may be beating hard and I may be wishing I was somewhere else, but as soon as I force them all to be obedient to what my mind says must be so, then it is so. It's a protection. I'm asking you to protect yourself, not just pretend or be an actor." She's earnest and very concerned that I understand well enough to apply it to myself. She's wanting to protect me, even like this.
But what she's said has captured my mind. I've seen her do it so many times. From the time she lifted me up from the ground to drag me into hiding and defended us with what little strength she had, to every time she uses her scolding eyes and words when she would rather be standing frozen to the ground, unable to utter even one sound. The strength I've had to defend myself has never been the strength to stand up and be. Only to drag myself from day to day, place to place. She's just taught me how to be and become.
The concept swirls in my brain and connects to all the other things I've been meditating on during this voyage and I finally understand what I need to do. I need to become. "If...if I decide it, in my mind, that I'm a creature of light, even if my heart doesn't believe it, and my doubts threaten to drown me, if I act it ...then I am it?"
Noriko's face goes to wonder and amazement. "Yes, Izark. And the more you practice it, the more you are it until there's nothing left of the doubt and all of you believes it because it is so."
Yes. "You've already shown me that."
"What? I have?" She knows only confusion, but then she doesn't watch herself from outside.
I blink at her, then try to pick moments she might be able to see it from. The most recent example comes back to mind. "When you stand by me and are my protector, my 'partner' as you described earlier. From the beginning, you were weak and relied on me, but when you became angry and protective in Calco, you changed to be the opposite. It surprised me then, and every time after then. You don't change any more, though. Now you're always that." She tries to work that one out. Finally she nods. Perhaps it was a sufficient example.
I take from her courage to make it my own sufficiently that I can practice it this time. If I can practice it for a simple task, perhaps I can learn how to do it for the most important one to me and all the world. I am the pirate king. It's time to put the lesser pirate scum in their place. I stand tall and do everything I can to take on that persona.
When I think I have it sufficiently, Noriko curtsies to me as if I am a king. It is fun when she's here to play with me, and I think I might like this better than the alternative. Even if I don't play the part well, if I can cow them before even reaching them that would be a benefit. I stride with loud clops and clanks for the room the bullies are in. Noriko follows me but I don't look. I'm sure I'll lose my ability to play my role if I do.
I'm surprised when the part I play calms the other passengers. In the past they would have only questioned my presence for being too young or weak. To wear the costume and the aura changes even their perspective of me.
"Swords are prohibited while on board the ship." I don't let the man move it, holding on to his hilt. He's shocked by my strength. "Gambling is banned as well. I'm afraid I'll have to confiscate these dice." I am the pirate king playing the ship's security, being polite, but underneath warning them they've gone too far to destroy my own conquest. I've practiced that, too, but usually it's unheard.
The man yells and threatens me and I give them the display of strength they require, the same as I would give anyone who would threaten me in the past. I throw the dice into the air and slice them in half with my sword drawn too fast for them to see, to show everyone they're hollow. "They're loaded," I purr smoothly and they pale.
I crumble the dice between my fingers into dust and let it sprinkle slowly from my palm onto the table. They step back. "I wonder if I should hand you guys over to the police when we reach the port?" I ask as if only to myself, and as if I already plan on it ...if they keep interfering.
"We're sorry sir," they say humbly, sweating now. "We'll stop gambling." I raise an eyebrow at the man holding the sword. "And I'll leave the sword in my room," he promises quickly.
I glare at them one more time to let them know I'll be making sure they obey, then turn and stride out of the room calmly. Noriko is standing before the doorway, her arms folded and an irritated scowl on her face, for having her time with the pirate king interrupted for their silly play. She takes my elbow as I pass her and pridefully walks out the door with me. I ignore her as if she should of course be in that position.
It's a position that gives me even more strength soon after, as the ship's crew and captain meet me on my way to thank me for stepping in. I'm given permission to carry my sword with me from then on to make sure the bullies stay quiet. I thank them and between us Noriko and I manage to escape politely back to our room so I can breathe again.
I turn to look at this Noriko finally. She smiles at me. "Very good, Oberon. You've graduated to Fairy King. I, Titania, Fairy Queen, commend you." She drops the nobility and grins. "That's their names in Shakespeare's work, anyway. He was a famous playwright in our world and wrote a play about the Fairy King and Fairy Queen."
I raise an eyebrow. "I wasn't the pirate king?"
"Oh, you were." She gives me a saucy grin and coy look and lets go of my arm. As she steps away from me she sways her hips to make her skirt swirl around her legs. She turns back to look over her lifted shoulder at me as she places her hand on her hip. "But at the end, when you talked to the sailors, you were the Fairy King, so we left that way."
I haven't been able to look away from her, and I am in character now. I purse my lips at her. "Hmmm. I can't decide which one I want to be right now. I've been waiting to graduate from knight to Fairy King for a while now, but I think...," I glide up smoothly to put an arm around her from the side and pull her closer to me with that hand on her free hip. "...I want to know a little more about this one." I narrow my eyes at her and purr, "Who flirts with the pirate king?"
Noriko looks me up and down with an appraising raking look and my breath quickens just a little. "Really?" It's said perfectly and archly. She nimbly steps out of my hold. Turning again to look at me from the other side, she tips her head and gives me a coy look. "You've never seen the [saucy wench]?" She goes all the way and gives me full lightly pouty lips. "I don't even know how to say that in your language. If you've never seen it, how am I to explain it?"
She really has asked for it. Before I can go any further, things need to come off. Things that are in the way. I look down to keep my stern demeanor and deliberately take off her belt, then my sword belt, and then the boots. Carefully I set the belts and sword on the table and the boots under it, still moving deliberately, drawing out the suspense and keeping to the role of pirate king who's in control.
Then I move very quickly to trap Noriko very close to me, my hands holding her at the waist. I've surprised her, but she waits for it. "I think I'm ready for my reward now, saucy wench."
I lean down and nibble at her ear and head farther down to nip at her neck, then steal her sash and knife as I allow her to scold and escape so I can trap her again. I'm in heaven at receiving this reward. She can play the woman I've always wanted to have the courage to seduce.
