"Here Hermy, let me clean you off." Both girls leaned over Sirius' reclining body and started licking each other’s face, neck and upper chest. Durin...g this, their robes started to slip off, revealing bare shoulders and the beginnings of their developing cleavage.This was, as the girls had intended, delicious torture for Sirius. He had been in Azkaban for 12 years without even seeing a woman and a year on the run had given him little opportunity for relief except for the occasional back alley. We talked three hours about everything, how I felt, my expectations, what I was going to do. They were amazed at how relaxed I looked. If they only knew!They were interested if I was going to re-enlist. I said, "No, not even if I got another promotion." I had been in the sandbox too long. We will always be at war in the sandbox. They agreed and gave me a list of numbers for help if I needed it when I got home and their personal contact numbers if I needed to talk to them.At noon we went out to. The sea, impossibly, was yet colder. Hester drew a breath of shock before he found himself dragged under. Great bubbles of air rose all around him as the ship slowly began her descent to the bottom. No longer able to feel his legs, Hester somehow kicked and kicked again until he found himself once more at the boiling surface of the traitorous sea. He heaved a breath, fighting to swim toward some floating debris to buoy himself up with. A wave lifted him high and, for a moment, he looked down. I left four dogs with them fer protection.Salome an' Sheba had each dropped a litter, so I had trained 11 new dogs as war dogs. I wanted ta sell some of them because we really didn't need that many, so we took 15 dogs with us on the trip. That's a hell of a lot of dogs, but I wanted ta let it be known what I had fer sale an' how many there wuz. Ifen I wuz lucky, I hoped ta sell some of them durin' this trip. One thin' I didn't have ta worry 'bout—the dogs could feed themselves on the trip.We.