Wait until morning.

It seems like a long, long time before the sun rises, the cock crows and Lady Rinelda comes along to extract me from my predicament. My humiliation was all part of her plan, of course. She has a million magical ways to punish interlopers, and I walked right into one of them. She laughs at me as I kneel on the ground before her, completely nude, my cheeks burning with shame. She's beaten me completely. I'm a helpless, pathetic little loser and she knows it. She's a gorgeous slender dark-haired woman in a loose white gown, with sharp features, alabaster skin and mocking dark eyes that seem to bore though to the very core of my soul and expose all my most secret weaknesses.

"Get up, thief," she says. "What's your name?"

"Liane." It's like she's controlling me somehow. I feel compelled to do everything she says.

"Well, little Liane, you belong to me now. And I'm going to spend the rest of the day making sure you know it." I shiver with anticipation, knowing I'm about to be punished some more and not wanting to find out what my fate will be.