Instead of a single ramp at the rear there were doors on each side and on ours they had been removed.Three weeks and we finally had a mission. It was ... company mission searching the jungle north of Nanc doing a search and destroy. That was the city I had helped kick the enemy out of. They were still working to build the base and had two regiments but we got tasked with checking a recon report. According to them the enemy had made a trail and brought in artillery.So far they were still bringing. They knew they had to win or go under and they fought tooth and nail, showing little or no quarter.”“Indeed, Mage Sofya,” Morgana acknowledged over the now spluttering Clarence. “In total we lost three hundred and sixty Mages, two hundred and thirty-six of them High Mages; three hundred and sixty-five Æsir; one hundred and ninety-two Murians; three hundred and forty Craebh Ruadh; one hundred and sixty-five Azurans; sixty-two Rutasi; seven Maraú-Uxuí and thirty-four Veda; sixteen Nosferatu, four. I suppose I wanted to believe I was something I wasn’t.” “Is it going to bother you if I rub one out?”Her nonsequitur surprised me. “What?”“I told you I was horny, and long, boring car rides make me hornier! Will it offend you if I masturbate?”I shook my head, grinning. “You’re very straightforward! No, it won’t; you’re a very healthy young woman, I’m sure you have urges.”She immediately began to strip out of her tiny, tattered denim shorts. “Oh, I have urges like gangbusters, alright. Fuck, do. Later, which I am permitted to tell you about, a great deal happened, very interesting things. v v v v v v The day after the Mistress arrived was a Saturday, and I usually ‘took Saturday off,’ that is, I did no writing that day. I had claimed that I needed to ‘rest my weary mind,’ and I pretended that I had done a week’s work every Saturday. Most Saturdays, too, Meggie and I made slow-evolving, eventually truly passionate love to each other, save those Saturdays when she was ‘hors de combat.’.