Kai looked at me strangely, "Is that what you desire? Our voices have no power over a woman, Michiru. A better slave you can find."

Firtha rolled to her side on the rock, put her hand on her cheek, and shrugged, "You can even have mine, if you desire. I've tired of him, I was going to command him into the sea anyhow. He behaves."

"Perhaps I feel the challenge is what I need." I walked down to where she was recovering, on all fours like the human animal all of them are, "She has an energy about her."