She smelled clean, she apparently showered in the mornings like I did. Her perfume was very subtle and vaguely familiar. I liked being near her. I was...ready for the curve that morning and held steady through it but the lady gave me a quick look as if making sure I was OK. We again exited together and climbed the steps together. We nodded at each other as we went our respective ways. I was in the Big City overseeing the installation of new hardware and software in one of our biggest clients. .. he'd like to slap cuffs on all these women so the men could have their way with them ... His deep green bedroom eyes darkened with lust as he glanced at all the women.Charles grinned mischievously. "Ohhh ... Detective North! I like the way you think! Did you bring enough cuffs for all of them?" Then he laughed at Jon's startled expression."Oh, shit! And see how easy it is to forget that Charles can read our facial expressions and know just what we're thinking sometimes? I can't help what I. . J: EYES sweet Elizabuff, sharp and keen and... soft (his gaze, and a hand has wandered towards her chest again; E pulls a cynical expression as she crosses her arms over her chest; in a remarkably quick recovery J makes an expansive gesture to the horizon)... fixed on the horizon, and wiv a mind, and a tongue, just as sharp in your 'ead, the very survival of a crew and their ship could be entrusted to you, nay, you'd be what is known as "a force to be reckoned wiv", I reckon.E has melted a. The rest were destroyed apart from two that were loaded with the dead bodies, which were taken back below the ford and dumped into the river. The empty carts were sent back to the rift were they were broken up for firewood. Once they were gone, work began on covering their tracks. In three hours nothing remained to show of the ambush. It was noon before ten Uhlans were seen riding back towards the river. That night, David ordered the mules to be herded back to the crater by a roundabout .