She stood from where she'd been working in a flower bed and took Henry by the hand, leading him inside the backdoor of her house."I don't want anyone ...hearing us or seeing us messing around, Henry," Mary said. She'd already decided to take her older neighbor up on his offer and she if she could show him he'd bitten off more than he could handle."Great, I'm all for privacy when it comes to sex, Mary," Henry said, as he watched Mary's shapely rounded asscheeks moving up and down as she walked in. "I'm Beth. I'm here about Alex." I see." Steve looked at Barb. "Are you also here about Alex?" I'm here about Peter." She says in a slightly amused tone. "I'm curious about Alex."For a moment, Steve doesn't know what to do with that comment, but then, neither do I. Finally, he mentally files it. "Mr. McElroy, May I see you for a moment?"In the exam room, he holds up the bullet vib. "Did you even notice it was missing?" Oh Christ." I had not noticed it was gone. I had forgotten it was there. I. Pierre quickly disabused me telling me of lakes many times larger than this one, lakes as large as seas themselves.I noted a tension that evening as we put in on a bank. Pierre informed me that we had left civilization behind and might run into savages who would not take our presence lightly. I looked hard around but could only see the dense forests which covered every bit of land for leagues. There could have been armies of savages and I would not have known it.We continued up the river for. The battle that followed lasted nearly a month and only after Keal and his friends mounted a sneak attack deep behind the enemy wiping out all of the leadership and most of the enchanted did the remaining gobloids flee back into the mountains. Of the 1700 the nobles brought near 500 were dead and another 500 wounded, most would recover but some might not. Keal’s forces favored much better as only 100 were killed and less than 300 were wounded, with Keal and his other healers all would.