. but that's not all." What?" It seems he's been watching for about a week now. He even asked me about my sister ... that's you of course..." So you t...hink..." Yeah. As many times as we've been topless in the back-yard he has to have." Well if its just him, that's one thing, but what about his friends? Have they been watching too? Your cousin Bob even. Has he been spying on us?" No, no ... he says it's been only him." What about his father though?" Again he says no. His father is almost never. " Why don't we find out, huh?"Mikhail gulped and nodded. Gudbrand smiled, drank the last of his ale, stood up and put Mikhail over his shoulder."Where are we going?" My house. My parents are out of town for a week."They arrived at Gudbrand's house, not too diffrent from Mikhail's apart from a couple of extra rooms. Gudbrand put Mikhail on a chair and began taking his armour off. "Sweet Fjörgyn, it's great to be out if that." Gudbrand said, baring his muscular, hairy chest in his undergarments.. What can I add?" Say something," Miss Krystal commanded. "Stupid, profane, profound, just say something." We had this discussion before, Miss Krystal," I objected. "That was three months ago. I'm still learning." So what have you learned?" Miss Krystal was putting me on the spot in the Mackie tradition—as General Patton said, doing something right now, even if not well planned, was better than waiting until the plan was perfected. "Say something." Question, First Sergeant," I posited. "What. Most of them weren't even trained in how to use the swords they had, using them as a status symbol rather than a weapon. We gathered all the swords we could as I suspected we would need them one day.During this time my relationship with the Youngest Lokhoni (as she was known) grew. I was reminded of my obligations. I had saved all the unattached women from death and they were now my responsibility. No Way was I taking that on. I took YL as my mate and attended to a few of the others. Again.