Jenny awoke to someone’s warm breath against her bald head. Moaning, she moved against him, trying to find a soft spot to lay comfortably. Until she suddenly realized she was lying on someone’s muscular chest. With a start, she came fully awake to find herself naked atop a man of some magnitude and proportion. Peering up at him through her long lashes, her mouth dropped when she realized who it was that lay beneath her, as trussed up as she now found herself.

“Oh, Jeiel!” she gasped. “What are we...that is…where are we? What’s going on?”

“We are still on Vendra and captives of the enemy,” he replied soberly, his...