And if you'll let me pump you for, err, information." She took my arm in hers, and it felt good right then to be touched by someone, even if I knew sh... had ulterior motives. I just pulled her to me, and let out a deep sigh I didn't know I'd been holding in."I'll be fine," I smiled. "I really need to be somewhere other than home right now, and this is great." Cool," she said. "Now, Condom Boy, since you ran over here, do you want a shower?" Are you telling me I need a shower?" Do you want to get. Make yourself comfortable, Mr. Lloyd. The kitchen staff will be alerted to your arrival and will bring in some food to hold you over until the meal is ready.’ I nodded and he turned and walked from the room. I walked around the room, carrying the goblet with me. I was engrossed with the various objects in the room, Viking age helmets and books and paintings and, the focal point of the room, a mural surrounded by what appeared to be authentic rune stones. I was so absorbed in looking at the. All but Lyubov's ship eventually fled and then so did she. In hours we found the Suma and the Soplasia in an ever growing battle. Our own ships were close and we took out stragglers if we could but mainly assisted the Suma. Their ships were massive but I think ultimately doomed. I wanted the battle to continue for a long time though and ultimately destroy both fleets.The Soplasia numbers grew till a ship was recognised as one like the one Ronny had seen use something like the dark crystal. It. It seems, that having drank too freely before he came upon the rake with some of his young companions, he had put himself out of a condition to go through all the weapons with them, and crown the night with a getting a mistress; so that seeing me in a loose undress, he did not doubt but I was one of the misses of the house, sent in to repair his loss of time; but though he seized that notion, and a very obvious one it was, without hesitation, yet, whether my figure made a more than ordinary.