He looked young, so young in his early 20’s. Shilpa was looking desperately to see who will perform massage on her.The physical appearance of the gu...y who will see her semi-nude and touch her body. She knew she was very desperate but couldn’t control.Oil? Or lotion, what’d you like?’‘Oil, thank you.’‘Coconut oil? Here, smell this aroma.’She took in the scent in front of her face, holding his hand to her nose. Among the coconut, she recognized a variety of spices.‘You will love the feel of it on. "I saw the flip switch still covered and shot him twice. I was moving towards him as my team went to reassure the hostages. That was when they changed and pulled hand weapons. I lunged in front of Pat as one fired and felt a huge fist slam into my chest. The others returned fire and stunned everyone as I hit the ground.Pat knelt and started feeling me and I groaned as I pushed her hands away, "help me up."She hissed, "we need to check the wound."She pulled me up, "stubborn human."I smiled as I. She doesn't have armaments. Most of her crew doesn’t carry real weapons. There was no way you could have known this was coming, or prepared for it, and we survived. As far as legendary stories go, that’s one for the books.”“Aye, I suppose that’s true. Still feels like bein’ a fraud. A good captain wouldn’t have gotten caught up like that. The Kestrel should have been able tae outrun that broken ship, but I let her get all bogged down and hobbled by all those small boats and janky rigging,”. She started sleeping in the chair, but got in the small bed with me and carefully cuddled and helped me sleep.The next check by the nurse made me have to tell her I asked Andie to rest with me so I would feel better. I seemed to be okay to her so she let Andie stay with me. That gal was pretty damned okay.Andie stayed with me and I rested until they came in to wake us. The day nurse wanted to fuss, but I told her that I would have had to have a bunch of painkillers if Andie had not stayed with.