But for the next two weeks I had hoped to get plenty more."What?" I asked my heart sinking, "you can still go, can't you."I had borrowed the tent and ...verything from a mate."Yes, yes, but," she said."But what?" I asked."Dad said we have to take Jilly with us," she said.Jilly was her younger sister and a right pain in the arse she was too."What! no," I snapped."Please Peter, it'll be ok," she soothed."The tent's not big enough for three," I said, clutching at straws."Dad said we can take his,". " "Ok." he said, after noting her answer on his note book, "Now you need to choose if you want to be hand spitted or automatically spitted on the Jessica 3000." He awaited her answer. "I would like to be spitted on the Jessica 3000 sir." she replied. "Ok." he said again, while noting her answer in the book. "Now you need to choose if you would like to be processed first, before all the other young girls, or last?a" he again paused her answer. "I want to be processed first sir. I-I don’t think I. The pirate boat was about half the length of the Windrunner. I counted ten oars per side so I figured that we were going up against twenty-five to thirty men at the most. Considering that between Tagus' crew and my party we numbered twenty-two the odds were fairly even. Hopefully the fact that my people all had bows would turn things even more in our favour. We'd see soon enough. In the meantime we got ready.The pirate boat did exactly as I had suspected it to do as we came about and bore down. It had numbered drawers, once for each room, that locked separately. The first woman came back when people had dispersed. “Hello again, I’m Trudi. You must be Danny.” “Hello Trudi. Yes, I’m Danny. A very irritated Danny because I think I won’t be going skiing but I’m pleased to meet you. Thank you for picking me up. I think my friends would have left me on the ground.” “You don’t need to thank me, Danny. Gretel and I are here to help you have a good holiday.” I grimaced as I tried to lift my.