Sophia had told BB that the party started a little after three, but it didn’t really get going until several hours later. Xxx When she did, they wrapped thin layers of leather around her hands until they were bound to the bar. Then each of them reached down and pulled at a latch of some sort at the base of the device. so perhaps it was the same seven. The first in line was a man, then two women, then a man, then two more women, and finally another man. Like everything else in the Copper Lady, they were spring-loaded. “Grip the bar,” one of the men said. “An altar of natural rock in the center of a Fairy Star,” BB thought to herself. BB, like everyone else, stood looking around trying to see who had been chosen.
