I really didn't want to stop in Beaufort for the night being so close to home."Bubba laughed. "Just let us know when you need something like that. The...way that big girl sucks diesel Art and Marie are more than happy to pay me to wait up on you!"The addition of new forward facing lighting (installed for just this purpose) and a trainable spotlight made negotiating the smaller channels back to the house a breeze while it had been a fairly dicey situation at night in the past. Soon Kalliste was. Their biggest problem at this stage was that they did not understand the difference between fiction and fact. They assumed that everything they read was factual, and they operated on that premise. That occasionally resulted in some very funny mistakes if you were standing to one side and not directly involved, but they were lucky in not running into some really big difficulties.One bit of fact they tripped across came from Otto continuing his search of the weapons section of the library stacks.. .. naughty, naughty. Young ladies shouldn’t say things like that.”Grinning back, she returned, “Who said I was a lady?”Both of them laughing, they started on their way. “Sure you didn’t hurt your ankle?”“No,” she said with a grimace, “like I said, just my pride,” and my ass, she added mentally.As they continued on down the passageway, Jasmine thought, He may not have the best education in the world, but his mind is fast. There was barely a hesitation before he came up with that comment to. "Suzanne's eyes bugged out in surprise. She hadn't been expecting that at all.The other women all stared at her with envy.She clutched a hand to her breast in the style Susan so often did. "ME?! Why me?!"He responded, "Lots of reasons. I've generally been sleeping alone because, let's face it, if I didn't, how much sleep would I actually get? Knowing you bunch, probably not that much." Darn tootin'!" Amy joked in her attempt at a Daisy Duke southern accent."Oh I don't know," Katherine mused.