It hadn't taken much effort to find my idiot mate, she'd left a trail
any decent mage could have followed.  Hell, they probably had, but had then
figured anyone _that_ stupid wasn't worth the time to kill.

     I pushed the bowl of M&M's towards Nutsy, then grabbed a couple more
for myself after he took all he wanted.  "It's amazing that brain generates
enough current to even allow movement," I said as I nodded towards the couch
where Kalindra lay.

     "At least the other one has stopped screaming," he mentioned in passing
as he glanced at where Lythandi hung from the ceiling.

     Neither one of them was going to be doing much of anything for awhile.
Especially after I'd seen what they'd done to Naldantis.  Nal was about as
shy a person as you'd ever find.  Being the only male around at the time,
Kal and Lyth had forced him into the role of my duplicate, then ignored his
whimpers as he tried to obey them.  Currently, he was curled up in a ball
in the middle of my bed, catatonic.  Forcing him to tell Kathalla she had
a "nice ass" had driven him over the edge.

     I hadn't been pleased, not one damn bit.  My revenge was going to teach
both of them just _who_ was the master of this house.

     Lythandi had been first, since I couldn't simply stun her the same way
I'd stunned Kal using our link.  It had taken a fair amount of effort to
subdue her, but then she had always claimed to 'like it rough'.  I very much
doubted she'd ever say that where I could hear it, again.  Now she hung from
a virtual hook in the ceiling, upside, and displayed in a way that had caused
her to scream right up to the moment I'd inserted the gag.  Even that had
only worried her a little, she'd protested more for show.  The protest turned
real when I'd returned from the bedroom with her 'toybox' under one arm.  I
wasn't supposed to have known it even existed.

     Reaching over, I twisted the control knob on the remote back to the top
of the scale, and heard Lythandi mew softly to herself.  In about twenty
minutes, she be screaming instead, and in thirty she'd pass out again.  I
figured the batteries were good for at least another six hours ...

     Getting to my feet, I walked over the couch and knelt down in front of
the tightly trussed Velan who glared back at me.  Barely even acknowledging
her glare, I grabbed one of the green M&M's that someone had sent her, from
the shinking pile in front of her, and popped it into my mouth.  "So, what
do I do with you?"

     The glance she gave Lythandi, and the fear that flashed across her face,
gave me an idea.

     "No, that would be the easy way out for you.  I think I've got a _much_
better idea."  Getting to my feet, I reached down and lifted her from the
couch, then threw her over my shoulder.  Then I walked over and picked up the
toybox that still sat on the floor.

     "Hey Nutsy, can you keep an eye on Lythandi for a few hours?"  The
little squirrel just grinned and grabbed another M&M from the bowl as he
reached for the remote control.

     "I think I know just who can teach this silly female a lesson she won't
forget soon."  Closing my eyes, I teleported to my labs just long enough to
grab a few things, then closed my eyes again and pictured a room I'd only
heard vague descriptions of.  They were enough for a lock-on though, and I
teleported Kalindra, the toybox, and myself into Kathalla's currently empty
'playroom'.

     When I left a few minutes later:


     There was one very tightly bound and embarrassed Velan...

     One toybox containing numerous gadgets, gizmos, restraints and several
dozen fresh sets of batteries...

     And one note, tied to said Velans tail, which documented (with proof)
just what had been going on...


     At the bottom of the note was my signature and a platinum-iridium copy
of my personal crest.  Just below the crest was a handwritten note:

     "Keep her until she learns to behave herself"