.I was a virgin silly.” The light bulb goes on and John feels so stupid. John had missed all the signs. He was so in lust with Issy that he had comp...etely forgotten to even ask. John had just assumed that an eighteen-year-old girl with a body as sinful looking as Issy’s had, well, had been having sex for a while. Plus the fact that Issy pulled playfully at his pants grabbing his cock and had latched her mouth onto it giving him a blowjob much like an expert? Well, he had just assumed? “Oh my. "I'd've taken a couple of weeks off. Let ol' Ron just suck it!" Gee, Celia," Ron's voice came from his office, "Glad you have our best interests in mind." Silliest thing I can imagine," Celia returned. She looked at me again. "Well, it's your life. She looks like a sweetheart. Deluded beyond my kin, but a sweetheart." She is," I smiled, thinking of that kiss this morning in the driveway. "I wonder how her day's going. First day. New hospital." Sounds like fun," Ron interjected."She's an agency. I’m bull-headed and persistent. You might as well answer. You know I won’t quit until you do.”Em shrugged. “We were putting on a play, but she was quick and the flirting seemed real enough. She thinks fast and makes direct eye contact. As you said, she’s cute as a button.”“Don’t get me started on button analogies. You know where I’ll take it.”“Point taken,” she acknowledged. “Still, as interesting as she is, we’re two different beasts. She’s a girlie-girl while I’m a tom boy.”“A lipstick. He sent a runner back to the ship to tell Captain Stephens to send all the iron to the smith. They spent some time talking to him, getting a feel for what life was like here. The smith told them that life was pretty good, business was brisk, and there weren't too many thieves and pickpockets about. His wife felt safe enough going out and about on her own, and the children didn't get into too many fights."What about healers?" asked Paul "Have you a local guild, or is there someone you go to when.