" She tried not to laugh and failed, turning aside.Maguire laughed with her. "Indeed. Been a lot of desertions according to one man who came back sick.... As for Alex, even those he gambled with refused to sit at a table with him. I fear he was ostracized, lass, thrown out into the gnashing of teeth by a wild, carrot-topped female, so they say. Merciless woman I've been told." Couldn't happen to a finer fellow. And I am no longer offended by the word Tory, sir. I do not wish to be in the same. Nude, leaning on the railing I checked my messages. Wow man, you were to be here at 10:00 am. Wow, you were to be here at 10:00 am. Oh what was I to do till then, oh what was I to do till then. Oh Enough of this. I was in my vehicle and getting out at the gym-pool building in Paradise Lakes. I had stopped by my camp site to get need-full things. I had the place to my self until 6:30. I did my hour long weight assisted calisthenics and stretch routine. That done, I swam a half mile. That done I. And his hand is fumbling at the front of my shorts, tugging them open, pressing hard against my bruised stomach. I try to focus my eyes, shaking my head.I feel a spike of panic and he f0rces my shorts down, cold air hitting my legs. I jerk my elbow back, feeling it sink deep into something soft and fleshy and he grunts. I push back off the wall and try to run, wondering why the fuck I had to keep picking fights when I couldn't win. Steve grabs my hair and throws me into the wall again, jarring. Supermarket tabloid stuff, at best, he thought, and nothing like these exams. They were done standing, and without actual physical contact. The biggest news from the exams was that there was one more person likely to join them, once he had finished his treatment.Things went back to normal after the medical exams, and things moved along for weeks without change, until another disturbance arose. A new arrival, a man named Ed Bell, caused quite a stir. He had apparently been the captain of the.