My phone vibrated.I was outside, waiting shyly on the pavement; my cock hardening. A car pulled up, it’s indicator blinking fast. The warmth of the ...car hit me as I entered and I suddenly realised how cold it had been. The car smelt odd, it smelt of a man - I repressed my disgust so immediately, that I’d only realise it later.With more authority and self-possession than I'd ever known, I said: “Hi”...And looked at him. He drove off quickly as he replied: “How are you?”'Horny' I breathed,. This was! Her Mother's and Marcus' lives were at stake and the next day they would be facing the starving lions. Nero did have his petty pleasures. No human in the world had a chance against a strong healthy big cat.She had Agrippa smuggle a bow and her quiver of thirty arrows into the arena. He told the Germans in the Guard that Nero ordered his special men with seniority to be his escort this day. The Germans were happy to have the day off since they were sickened by the unarmed people being. " Oh yes," I replied, suddenly recalling that conversation. "Them. Weren't they the ones who'd been involved in that controversy in North Carolina a few years ago...because of that African guy who had this kind of cult?" That's them," my wife replied. "So, the same young black guy we saw a lot over at Anna and her husbands place; the one who obviously fathered the baby; I think he's doing the same thing with Cheryl and Doug now." Seriously?" Oh yes," she replied, and there was still that. I lift my head to the sky to see a lantern float above the castle. I jump up, rocking the boat as I rush to the bow of the boat. I stare, transfixed as a wave of light begins to rise over the city, lighting up the sky around us. My heart begins to beat faster, the joy of the moment taking complete control as the sky fills with light.I test my head on the bow watching as my dream comes true, all the lanterns rising from the boats around me create a scene that leaves me breathless. Still.