What if this takes me... months before I decide I'm ready."I reached out with my foot and gently ran it along her leg. "Hey, I already said I was goin... to do whatever I could to speed the process along." I chuckled. "Besides, how long can YOU go without wanting to make love to me?"Dawn smirked and asked, "Is that a challenge?"I sat up quickly, waving both hands, "No! No!" And then I grinned. "Just know that I'm ready when you are."Dawn smiled and then rolled onto all fours, crawling over to me. He shuddered with the thought.It was early June before Jase finally rode into the northern edge of Atlanta. Federal military occupation of the South was in great evidence already since the Republican Congress had passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867. Carpetbaggers and scalawags were also much in evidence in local and state government, businesses, and other positions of influence.Although in truth, not all of those of such persuasion were as bad as common belief would have it. Many honestly. I certainly didn't want them to know that I found a few of the pictures quite stimulating.As we perused the stacks of porn I felt the eyes of the old man behind the counter and the few other customers following us around the room. They were probably wondering what an attractive young woman was doing in a place like this. But then, I was too.After we had made a complete tour of the magazines and movies, we spent a few minutes looking at the sexual devices available. I was shocked! I had never. In one of the jewellery stores in Horn, I found a broach that had the crystal that stored energy in it.It wasn’t real pretty, and the gem obviously wasn’t considered worth much. I, however, knew very different. It didn’t cost me much to purchase. Not that I really had to worry about coin. I had the extra bags in my magic box and had worked out that I was quite rich.I had found a spell in the second book I had that let me make a ship’s travel shield. What this did was effectively smoothed the.