She collapses giggling into my arms and I hold her close. The feel of her warm naked body against mine is amazing. In spite of all my misgivings, I fe...l myself responding.“Ok out of here! A girl needs some privacy to make herself presentable”!Reluctantly I leave her, grabbing a white toweling robe from the rack to hide my state of arousal. Logging onto the Net I start investigating a few sites feeling more uneasy with everyone I look at. The bathroom door finally opens and Jenny emerges. Hair. The bedframe was like the table, intricately carved to display smithing on the headboard and stained to accent the cedar he had used. I double checked the closet, drawers and even under the bed to ensure that nothing had been left in the room. My old room was the same, though the bed frame was free of any carvings. A quick check of the room showed that it, too, had nothing remaining from when I used to live here. Finally, the last door came, and I felt trepidation at reaching out to open it. I. . and I tipped well. As this was a small town pub, they often closed up before 11:00 if there wasn't any crowd to justify staying open. But one bartender would just flip the sign to 'closed', lock the door, dim the lights and let me continue drinking as long as I liked, never kicking me out before I had had my fill. In fact, she would usually pour herself a drink and pull up a stool beside me and chat with me until I left. Her name was Ann.Now I've always had a rule to never to pick up. Stability and the avoidance of war within the Hull were ensured by a common code of conduct, referred to as Decagon’s Edict.The enigmatic Decagon was widely referred to as the king of pirates, and the edict was the code of conduct enacted on his own ships, which had later been implemented in the Hull as a whole. However, no one had seen the elusive pirate king for years, who many suspected was one-third of the triumvirate who de facto ruled Omicron.In the pirate king’s absence, it was his.