What brought you out here today?"I shook his hand and said, "I just went for a walk and things just seem to run their course. First, catching you two ...n the woods, and then finding that den of sex that looks like a restroom." Charlene laughed and reached in a cooler and grabbed an ice-cold Coke. She handed me the first one, then another to Harry and finally took one for herself. She said, "Yeah, I guess you could call our little playhouse a sex den. We set that thing up last fall and we come. We need to chum the water, to attract the sharks.”Holding his head as far from the bucket as possible, Chuck looked at the smelly mess not even wanting to know what was inside. He knew that it would draw every shark within miles, to the boat. He went to the side of the boat and dumped the contents of the bucket into the water. He turned to find another bucket being thrust into his hands. He dumped the contents of that one into the water.Two buckets of chum later, he looked across the surface of. Yet at the moment, the fury with which the enlarged drops fell was not appreciated, for they numbed Noah’s fingers as he gripped his sword and made him shiver as his clothes became worthless from the damp. It was also difficult to see, the drops splashing against his face and blurring his vision, but he kept his gaze focused on his enemies.He was out in the forest, Tin having retreated as per his orders. Before him, a trio of bandits, all with weapons raised. Noah was armed with his short. Japan just couldn’t dance in and take their job away from them, and CENTCOM had vastly greater resources than the IJN would likely be able to establish anytime soon, even if all their efforts were dedicated to military construction. If they handed military resources over to CENTCOM, it wasn’t likely they’d be much appreciated based on their experience.Instead, their military efforts would be directed towards identified Sa’arm occupied worlds that weren’t under Confederacy interdiction efforts..