Derwen regaled them with my heroic defense of her ship, which won her heart. The older noblemen and ladies seemed impressed with her tale, but one of ...the younger men seemed to discount it. I felt indifferent to the young man's attitude, preferring instead to enjoy the company of the other members of the party. Derwen mentioned the sales of Juniper Hills water in Lone Tree and the same young man laughed at the stupidity of people, buying water at ale prices. His elderly mother clutched at her. “Oh my God you must think I was trying to.” She paused, “I think I had better explain.”“Yes I think you had better,” Robert replied sternly.When she stepped from the cabinet the light from the window fell on to her face. Robert was immediately drawn to her eyes, they were green and what he had thought was dark brown hair was in fact a deep auburn. He realised she was really quite beautiful and her voice had a melodic reassurance to it.“You see,” she began “this was my room, but when I saw you. As friends ... really close friends. It's kind of like when Micky and I did something together the first time. We both thought we'd like it, and we did. Now we think we'd like to give us a birthday present for you."The way she turned it around, being honest and clever at the same time, was funny enough that I chuckled. It didn't hurt so badly any more, though I was still a little queasy in the stomach."You want Mommy Susan to kiss it and make it all better?" asked Susan in a sultry voice. I. " You're welcome Amy, this is normal for the adults in the morning, a big breakfast is good way to start the day, so expect it every morning, but should you want anything special just let me know?" I don't think I could argue too much about it, and I do appreciate your offer, although I would say I prefer just a bowl of cornflakes in the morning, I get pretty bloated, especially after a big fry up like this." Mom and dad always had sausage, bacon, scramble eggs and toast in the morning, and.