"Do you need medical help?" A nice young man with soft brown hair asks, as he comes over to take my arm."Oh no, no, no it has been that kind of a day,... I explain out of hand. "I am undamaged, as you can see. It is just getting almost blown up, tossed across space and time, and ending up in someone's back yard in nothing more than my nightgown." I smile up at the young man. "Has me a little unsettled."I notice then, that the crowed is dispersing and my three escorts have moved away from me. I. "Go, but I still want the story on that yacht." The work on 413 is a lifted cleat. Don't know why but I did a Doppler probe – probably for the practice, I got an anomaly that I couldn't put down to that bollard. Took me half a day to locate it but the middle third of that deck is stress fractured. Once I got a cut it was easy. The apex of the stress area is where they bolt a power windlass and it spreads out and away from that bollard. Enough tension on that winch and that deck would lift. With. "Are you a virgin, Kelli?" Elaine asked.Kelli almost choked on a bite of her sandwich. "I beg your pardon?" She asked if you were a virgin," Eric said, slouching lazily in his chair."Of course I'm a virgin! Aren't you, Elaine?"Elaine giggled and shook her head, her ringlets swishing over her shoulders. "Of course not, silly!" You're not?" Kelli was astonished."Eric, you have mustard on your chin, honey," Elaine said. "Let me."Kelli watched wide-eyed and openmouthed as Elaine leaned over and. “Do you have any money?” she asked.I nodded. “In my saddlebags unless they found it.”“I’m starved,” she said, easing herself to the ground. I took care of the horses and she went on into the tavern. But the time I got there, a pitcher of beer stood on the table along with a hunk of deep yellow cheese, a paring knife and some dark bread.“It’s all they have,” she said. “He was about to close for the night.” No one else was in the place and the fire was banked. “But they do have a bed.” She did.