We continue south until the ship channel intersects with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, and this time we turn west. Soon it’s just us cruising thro...gh the marshes and low-lying prairies of south Louisiana, a single tow visible a couple of miles ahead of us.Privacy.Giggle. “Remember right before we got out of bed this morning?” she smiled.“Uh, yeah...” I grinned.“Me first,” she said, leaning back against me, unbuttoning her jeans and sliding them down.You only need one hand to steer this. She was dying to be close to you last night, her father sitting over her meant she couldn’t. Circumstances won’t allow you to get together.” “Tell me something I don’t already know”, I said. “Look I love her too and I didn’t even get a chance to tell her.”“She knows how you feel why do you think she was crying, she feels the same way too! Oh and she says you can keep em.” “Keep em?!”, I said pretending to sound puzzled. Rekha smiled “Yes, you know what she means.”I lay back down my eyes closing. Be warned, it might take days of walking to find the bandits.”“I understand,” Bianca declared.“Young miss, I fear your grandfather might no longer be alive when we find them,” Merritt said in a soft voice.Bianca gulped and nodded.“I have watched my father and mother killed before my eyes,” she said. “I spent two days listening to Martis and Renati describe in detail what fate I would suffer when they brought me to the capital – and what fate awaited me when it came time for me to pass into. As Marian moved to the door, she stopped to hug me. I had always gotten along very well with Debbie's little sister and I felt terrible that I had not, in her eyes, lived up to expectations. It was my hope she would never understand.Debbie was the last to leave. She looked truly sad as she moved close and seemed to look into my soul. She appeared to be totally at a loss. She searched my face for some sort of a sign, or something. I just nodded and guided her by the elbow to the door.As soon as.