Everything seem to quiet, to pause, as if the world was taking a step back to allow us to enjoy this moment. If only it would never end. Music drifted...from the campsite below.All I ever wantedAll I ever neededIs here in my armsWords are very unnecessaryThey can only do harmRarely, if ever, have I known contentment like that moment. It would be forever etched in my mind as a defining moment of our history. I have no words that could describe how I felt, and words were unneeded. I just knew I. I felt comforted to have the men with me who had fought the raiders and ultimately saved the female slaves working at the sea-coal site. Hajin called them his "blooded men" and the other trainees treated those warriors with deference and respect. However, even the blooded trainees were junior to Hajin's primary mercenary company in Conquest Point. The men on the mainland had years of experience at fighting. The training company seeds replacements in the Conquest Point Company―due to death or. And she knewexactly what it was.It was time to leave.Without speaking, she pushed him lightly away and headed for the stillopen door at half a walk and half a run. She almost got there, when asudden strange force shut the door right in front of her. She pulled atthe handle, and got the door open - luckily it would not lock - only tofind a hand pushing it closed again.And then two strong hands around her waist. Williams. Out of the cornerof her peripheral vision, the female ghost, flickering. ‘They said they would be late,’ she said softly and looked at me questioningly with a slight smile. ‘No,’ I replied, knowing too well what she was suggesting, aware of a warmth in my groin. ‘Shouldn’t you be wearing your bathrobe?’ I added to deflect my thoughts. ‘But nobody’s home, … except us,’ she countered, first with a pout and then with her too suggestive little smile. ‘No, … you know what I mean.’ She looked disappointed, pouting again, but still persisted: ‘Why not?’ ‘Never, … here.’ I.