"I began to load the weapons. The rifle and the shotgun were lying on thetop of our luggage as I laboriously took out the rounds from the boxes andpus...ed them into the magazines. My recent lack of practice showed, as wellas the cool weather that made my fingers much less dexterous than usual."You really know your way around this stuff," Charlie commented as he waswatching on. "Did you learn that in the National Guard?" Yep. Turns out my stint there was good for something." Why did you join?" I. I figured it must be a cousin that was staying with them. My chance soon came. She didn’t walk directly by the woods, but she did go by some construction. I decided to grab her at a point where she cut between a couple of houses that were under construction. All of the workers had the day off, as I had read in the newspaper, because of money problems. I was waiting as she walked between the buildings, and grabbed her as she went by. I stuffed the gag in her mouth right away, and pulled. However with him being so close to dying and the amount of power that will mix with mine to heal him he will probably wake with an insatiable desire for sex." "Let's get him to the bed so we can get started," Risa said and bent to take one of Anthony's arms and drape it over her shoulder. With Kylie under his other arm they managed to get him to his room and onto the bed. Risa began pulling his clothes off. "Eliza go down to the goblin barracks and get Galina, Megan, and Mina we are probably. .. it can get noisy ... but most people are used to the noise of the city. Compared to the city, the steering gear is quiet ... almost hypnotic.On the starboard side of the mechanicals is one of the heads and another but larger berth ... quarters for two friendly people ... real friendly. The headroom isn’t great because the overhead is the cockpit floor. No claustrophobes need apply. And there’s the added attraction of half of the steering gear.We don’t use either of the aft bunks ... except.