The market

[Maero]

Tiff smiled and walked with him as they neared the bed. If they went to Axle's room, it would already be made into a romantic set up perfect for Tiff, who gasped as she saw it. "Wow..." She said softly as Axle began to take off her red dress. The whole thing was held together by one knot in the back, and when it came undone her dress fell to the ground to reveal Tiff's nearly perfect body.

She wore only a small pink bra and some string panties, but that was all. Her body was almost like Alex had left it, but there were three vicious lash marks on her normally flawless back. She hid them in shame as she realized he could see them and rubbed her arm sadly as she stared down at the ground. Looking at her hands now he could also see lash marks there as well. Although they looked like they had been rather nasty, they were already healing, and they looked weeks old. Chances were that if they started making love right then the scars would be gone when they finished.

Healing that quickly meant that Tiff had been punished recently, perhaps just before she came to him...and a red dress would disguise any blood stain. The grimness of her training may have started to hit him then as she stood before him, ashamed that she was not perfect like how he had left her, and ashamed that she had earned the lashes.