“It’s a lot to process, but I feel okay. Once I got past the point of magic and genies being real and focused on the rest of the story, I understo...d your actions.” Her voice suddenly took on a slight, sharp edge, and her eyes narrowed ever so slightly as she continued. “But, just to be absolutely clear, you didn’t ‘bamboozle’ your sisters into having sex with you?”Taken slightly aback by my mother’s pointed question, it was Amare who jumped to my defence.“Thor was the one ‘bamboozled’ by his. At least we can die fighting." She caught up a sword from the council table. "Now get to the walls, and show that rabble that we know how to fight and die like men!" And wind up on Kathool's altar? It's no use, the soldiers won't fight." They'll fight if they have a leader!" She swung the flat of her sword against a gong to call the head of the palace guard. "Follow me to the walls!"Regal in her lacquered armor, she led the way to the top of the wall. Below, Sholim waited, his army drawn up in. We were married in 1960 and our sex life for those 16 years of marriage up to 1976 was almost none existent, she thought it was dirty. Being so close to her mother her attitude to men had changed drastically after our Wales holiday, her mother had noticed this difference in Ruth and it puzzled her, she soon got out of Ruth the truth about Cornelius and his business associates, which got her very excited being herself a widow for almost 30 years, so it was not long after that her mother too. I’m sorry I’m pretty sure that came out wrong. Why are you so silent?”“Mmm. I was just trying to picture you being bad enough at this to make my Mom laugh. She had a beautiful laugh.” I answered.He stopped and lifted my chin with two fingers so I was looking at him and said, “I can tell something else is on your mind. What’s going on?”“Are you doing anything sexual with Alice? I saw you two together at the cabin when the both of you were supposed to be cleaning the fish.” I cut to the point.He.