"Tarras turned away from the window and did not both hiding his grin.Uras looked between the two of them and shook his head. "How anyone can see humor... in any of this is beyond me." Have you finished contacting the other Lords, Duric?" asked Tarras."Yes. They are less than enthusiastic about what I had to tell them." I can imagine." It doesn't help that the Mage Guild appears to be in the midst of an internal power struggle."Uras frowned. "And just how do you come to that conclusion?" As I got. I loaded two washers and set them going. While my stuff washed, I walked out going into the clothing optional pool area.I walked in and, at a lounge, removed my clothes. I walked into the pool at the shallow end. I put in a few laps before exiting the water to lie on the lounge. I was on my back. A couple in their middle thirties, I think, took seats next to me, removed their clothes, and lay back to enjoy the sun. From their tans, this wasn’t their first time tanning nude.Moments later, I. “Come now we are all friends here,” Lord Mc pleaded as his face went a deathly white, “Captain Beckinthwaite has just returned from a very profitabe adventure in the Americas.” “Bloody nightmare,” I said, “Storms, Tempest, bloody feed water pump bloody spindle bloody gland bloody blew and I haven’t had a bloody shag in weeks.”“Capain please,” Lady Mc insisted.“I had a bloody gut full on’t it, bloody Shipping lark.” I said, “Brass is in bloody mining that’s what I reckon, high bloody time to. We did things differently back when I was human. And after, well, I just never did."Rob was nonplussed. Here he was with the most worldly woman he had ever known, and in this one thing, he was the experienced one. He shook it off and continued with his thoughts."I've got season tickets through work to a local theatre group. They're doing a presentation of the play 'Chicago.' How about we go see that together?" A play?" she said wonderingly. "I've never been to a play." I didn't think taking you.