If I had used any other words, we would be dancing around them all evening." And do you seriously believe your own words? Can you claim some sort of i...nsight my own Lord Admiral does not have?" Yes, Master, I do."Gedric flinched as if a fist had flown at his face, his eyes wide."I was there when the Inonni invaded the D'ronstaq Manor, Master. I saw what they could do. And now I think I know how they did it." How they--? How do you know about--? What in blazes are you talking about?!" I know how. She laughed and called me Bambi again. My face must have fallen. She lent in and whispered in my ear “Don’t forget, Bambi was a stag don’t you know?” in a fit of giggles and then she turned and bounded up her steps to her front door, several at a time.I walked home elated and lost. Had she been giving me hints and encouragement? Were we still ‘just friends?’ It wasn’t so far home.On Monday I had to wait by the end of my row for Alice to come into sight. We walked together, side by side, close. I will not bore the reader by repeating at length her experiences in a distant, untamed, primitive, savage and unforgiving land. She had accidentally locked herself out of her hotel room after a wild party in the bar some hours earlier, and been unlucky enough to have been spotted by a jealous colleague, who had then bribed a corrupt police captain to have her arrested and chained in the yard of his police station for over a month, naked and exposed to the cold of the night and the heat of the. The sunshine felt fabulous on her body. It warmed her in places that weren’t usually exposed, and the sensation was amazing.The gentle breeze grazed every inch of her skin, and she spread her legs a little, imagining that it would feel quite good between her legs.And she was right.Tara squirmed a bit on her chair. Her body felt electrified. The warmth of the sun and the cool of the breeze between her legs simultaneously was exhilarating. Without thinking, she flipped on to her back and spread.