She didn't think that any of the soldiers realized she was a woman, but she spent entirely too much time with Brigadier Markos, much more than any ord...inary corporal would.Another palm-width and they were on a ferry, being pulled across to the island that was Outpost. Not everyone, mostly just officers, plus Trilium, Noia and Tanda Sa.At the water's edge they were greeted by Count Tellan and his wife and a Ruthani named Manistewa who was there to greet Tanda Sa and a number of others. Everyone. It was in thebasement that she noticed the pair of worn thigh top stockingsballed up behind some boxes. They hadn't been dropped there,they'd been hidden. The idea that sprang to mind was quite ashock. "Larry? It couldn't be. He did have that vague girlishboy look to him and not a very muscular body. Smooth andhairless, except for sprouting leg hair. Could it really behim?" Linda imagined that he might have tried out the stockingspurely out of childish curiosity. No harm in that. She. But enter it he would. He would kill Nadronis. He would kill the Demon Mage!***Kroofus glided along the sparse ground like a panther hunting, hardly making any noise at all. He was girded in blackened chain with front and back breastplate, a full helm, which made him appear all the more sinister, and heavy leather gauntlets, studded with silver knobs at the large cuffs. Luda likewise moved carefully, though not possessing the skills of a hunter, she made up for it by sending her magic ahead of. He could hardly walk when he came out of the last club and tried to get to his car. He made it, and we watched from close behind him, as he went home on auto pilot or whatever. A few nights later we had to work and once we were on station, she asked how my wife was doing. I told her that she was fine and that tonight she was entertaining some clients at a local club, without saying which club, or where. Her question was obviously meant to pass the time, and I doubt she really cared. We'd been.