I’m right, aren’t I? I feel you so deep in my heart and soul. It’s like I’ve known you for centuries.’ Her eyes, which I will try to describ... later, were burning into mine with intensity I had never seen from anyone. And I too, felt the bonds of many lifetimes and many shared adventures. I can’t, and won’t try to, explain the rest of that night. We got the lead roles, of course. We sat outside the theater for hours after everyone else had gone home. We hugged almost constantly, and …nothing. I had the first watch tonight, so I just drank another cup of coffee and saddled up one of the new horses for the night watch.I guess I had been riding for about an hour. It was as dark as the inside of a coal sack at midnight. My eyes had become so accustomed to it, that I could actually make out shapes by starlight. Movement was even easier to detect.Most of the cattle had bedded down for the night, so I was a little surprised when I saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. I pulled my. She could do it, but she was not used to the task, so she would have to take it easy until they could get her a conventional saddle of the kind she was used to.Fortunately, Maria was close enough to the same size as Ann, so that she could wear Ann's spare set of clothes; namely, pants and shirt. Unfortunately, there were no boots that she could wear, but she was able to use some moccasins they took from a dead Sioux. She had to do without a hat, but the shadows cast by the trees should keep. Right from the start of the relationship she had rules for what we could and couldn't do. Rule number one was nothing below the waist. She came from a religious family and told me after our first kiss that she was planning on staying a virgin until she was married and if I had a problem with that we wouldn't work out as a couple. I accepted that and we spent many months where our sex life consisted solely of kissing and me caressing her breasts, first over the top of her clothes and then.