”“That’s most kind of you… Ali.” I suddenly realised that we were both confidently talking as if she’d already got the job, even though ho...urs and rates hadn’t even been mentioned.She beamed a lovely mischievous smile across the table and crossed her legs. “How would it be – seeing as our two names are so similar – if I was to call you ‘Daddy’?”“I’d like that very much.” At that precise moment ‘Daddy’ desperately wanted to see where those shapely ‘pins’ of hers finished up: hopefully meeting. “It is, Your Highness,” Father cut in quickly, “although only my son, his wives, my wives, and I know about it right now.”“Still the tactician,” King Kugiar replied, smiling. He motioned Father off to the side and they moved about fifteen feet away where they held a quiet conversation. At one point, Father pointed east, and then south. Both men were smiling when they returned.“Keep what your wife feels she will need, and send the rest to me under guard,” the king finished saying as they. There is just something that helps reset your frame of mind, when you walk into someplace that is as familiar as my room is to me. A feeling of nostalgia sweeps over me, even though I’ve only been gone a couple days. For a while I stare at my large Naruto poster, hanging on the wall opposite my bed. I’d picked it up a couple years ago at one of the local cons. On my desk is a figurine from Sword Art Online, which I special ordered from Japan. My TV, not as big as Shanna’s and Shannon’s, has. “Hey Fran, we should invite our BFFs over here to enjoy the sun just like we did today. I could invite Becky and Jill; you could invite June and Buena. This will be an all-girl get together for gossip and if all agree, a chance to work on full-body tans.”Fran had a good idea, “Let’s start out saying we will be doing everything in the nude. That should make our little get-together a lot more fun.I called Becky. “Becky, Z here. Fran and I are managing what amounts to a lightly used Island.