Borodir had helped me with the knots.Borodir had helped me with the knots... he had far more experience than I did in restraining Centaurs. Surrounding but not touching Ramsey were an additional series of ropes, guides I had criss-crossed the room with to provide me with more than adequate access to the beautiful Centaur male who hung unconscious in the center of it all. I clambered across a few of the ropes and reached up, removing the suspension collar from his neck. He was already reaching consciousness when I had reached my waiting point, two meters from his front. "Wh.. Wha?" he asked. "Hello, Ramsey," I said, quietly, slowly. "Ken?" he asked. "What... What did you do?" "Forgive me, Ramsey, but thank Daneed Gessler for his perversions of one of our central sciences." I held up the Gessler suspender, a restraining device that basically keeps people unconscious. I let it go and it hung there, in the air, unmoving. Of course, the moment I made any major movement my wake in the air would send it floating away. Rather than see that happen I flicked it away gently. "How did I get here?" "Your former master gave you to me." I smiled. "Don't you like it?" "Damn you, Ken. This isn't the kind of night I had in mind." I pushed off with the ropes gently, aiming for the two that hung before him but much closer. "Ah, ah," I said. "You're mine for the night anyway. Besides," I said, reaching out with one hand to caress his chest, "I owe you this." His skin is a marvelous chocolate brown, completely hairless, almost creamy. His muscles are well-defined mostly as a result of just being overly physical and not through any daily regimen. I looked up into his dark brown eyes, which seemed to be both pleading with me and plotting against me. "Not, mind you," I said, "that you have much say in the matter." I reached under his long, shiny black hair to grab a good handful, the way I like mine grabbed. "Understand?" "Go rot, Shardik." "You had your fun with me enough times, Ramsey. First in the barn, yes, but all those times afterwards when we got together too, remember?" "I remember. |