" {Despite her pert mouth and lipstick, she decided she still felt Robbie would have felt the same way about her dad, at a moment like this.}Bucktoot...ed Winnie said, "Well, I don't see. At least you had things you could put in boxes. Me, I wasn't left with hardly anything when my folks died." {And, now, standing in a dress, she'd lost something that she had thought could never be taken from her.}Tammy said to her, "That is the point, Winnie. As terrible as it is to lose your past, and the. Oh, you may say it was the heat of the fire or the sweet, strong mead but I say it was her smile that warmed me then.We went together to the feast. The ram went uncomplaining to the knife and the druid pronounced the omens good that year. This I already knew. Rhiannon touched my arm as we talked and, for once, I didn't get drunk with the other warriors. Thus and thus, it was, I fell in love.Beltane"Will you dance with me? I hear the harps and cymbals."I rose and crossed the trodden grass and. "I want us all to take a shower together. Just washing and touching... not getting carried away."I didn't want to tell JR that I didn't think it was going to work, because she was so bubbly happy and enthused about the idea.It didn't really work, either. A regular shower enclosure just doesn't have enough people for three people at a time. One person was at the end, chilled. Another person was getting drowned and the one in the middle, splashed.I was really proud of JR, though, because when we. He was a perfect victim. In Mercy's opinion, a guy like this was simply made to be exploited."How about that coffee then?" she said, snapping David out of his reverie.David nodded mutely and left the room.During his brief absence Mercy mulled the situation. She had a wicked glint in her eye. The job was hers if she wanted it and Mercy decided that she did. Working for such a hapless jerk would be a scream. With his diminutive height, his chubby unprepossessing frame, his deeply forgettable.