Since you’ll have a limited amount of time before Sarge takes over, I’ll have Little One check you out each day to take care of any sore or torn m...scles.” When the women looked at him, practically in shock, he hugged them again. “I just feel that you need to be trained ASAP. As you are certainly aware, we have a ruthless and very wealthy individual who has repeatedly attacked us. We need to be ready, and that includes you two.“In the meantime, I can work with you on handgun training. Expect. He smiled at the compliment and turned to Ikuno, “Are we ready to go?”The oni nodded and Silma gave Kal a hug and a smoldering kiss before wrapping her arms around a slightly startled Ikuno. “Thank you for keeping your promise,” she told the oni whose expression went from surprised to confused.“Master Kal, I have a request before we go,” Ria said as Kal picked up her bag. He was still having a difficult time wrapping his head around Ria and the bag being a single entity.“What’s that?”The. . I hope you like it. ————————————————————————– John loved his garden, and spent a lot of time working on it, especially so since his wife had died. He felt that this had been very unfair, as he had taken an early retirement in order to try to spend their later years together. This was not to be as she had gone quite unexpectedly only a year after. So there he was, tending his garden, living easily off his company pension and not touching his savings, other than to bail out his wayward children. Although it was autumn, I can’t bring myself to call it fall, there was not one golden leaf lying at rest on the green grass. My mind imagined a Head Gardener seated in a watchtower with powerful binoculars held to his unblinking eyes as he scanned the grounds, ready to order an under-gardener into action, ‘Ramirez, a leaf has fallen in your sector, remove it immediately!’ The under-gardener would run to his quad-bike and speed to the errant leaf, pick it up and sprint back, hoping that his.