The wind quickly picked up and we smelled the rain coming. All we could do was brace ourselves. The sheet moved towards us quicker than we had expecte.... I leaned into his back with my helmet and tucked my hands into the shoulders of his vest to protect them from the raindrops. I gave him the smallest squeeze to his back he reached back briefly to give my thigh a rub and a tap before going back to gripping the handle bar. Looking up briefly as the rain went from a big plop here and there to. The fair-haired General of the Halcyon Western Army was as infamous in Matheros as he was famous in Halcyon. He was relying on the fact he was infamous in Terfain as well for his plan to work.With time on his hands he considered what Minara had told him. The initial horror and disgust of what she told him had abated. If he where honest with himself, he had suspected that defeat would mean destruction, and he had almost accepted it after that final message all those years ago. But the fact they. “Have you got names?” he asked them.Neither child spoke or moved other than to sit back on the leather seats as they were thrown off during the ride. This was most entertaining as the children were never really able to sit still properly and kept bumping themselves on the floor of the carriage as they slipped off the seats.As the journey progressed, the silence of the children irritated him and he tried looking out of the window at the beautiful countryside but this was so boring. After a few. I was trying to say something -- y'know -- gracious and highly complimentary to my main squeeze, here.Tess looked at me kind of funny, but finally just accepted my inane remark as an attempted compliment. She probably wondered why Carla Frances' image had come into my head, at that moment, in the first place. Hell, I didn't know. I wondered about it myself.So I ignored, and more-or-less disguised, the existence of my raging boner, and gave Tess' still-naked body a scrumptious rub-down that had.