Her eyes widened suddenly as she realised she was effectively naked before him, and she sat up quickly, trying to pull the remains of her dress around...her.Sheathing Oroth, Aran unclasped his cloak and draped it around her shoulders, which earned him a grateful smile. “We don’t have much time,” he told her quickly, squatting down to look her in the eyes. “I must check on Kedron first, but then I have to get back to camp. There are more Goblins attacking there.”Lena nodded, understanding. She got. Something about the older woman and her sad eyes, despite the happy face, touched her and she hoped that the woman would be far more suitable than the dozen applicants that they had met so far. She giggled to herself as she thought, I wonder if she is going to handle the scrutiny of three women and a feisty red curly haired little girl better than the ones so far. ‘She was sad, Mummy,’ that same little girl said to her as she turned back towards the lounge room in Sydney’s house. ‘Yes, Jenny,. All three of them already owned wonderful neat tidy bushes. Of course they weren't perfectly trimmed for thong wear since they'd never seen such a thing anyway and shaving their legs was not a concept which had ever been mentioned in this day and age.Since Rose had been extremely thorough it had occurred to her and I knew there was a box somewhere with eight of the highest quality straight razors the Internet had to offer, along with three brand new high dollar razor strops. There was even a. My name is Merton Miles.”Thuwit waited a few beats. “And?”“That’s it,” Merton said. “Merton Miles. Oh! Sorry, Merton Briggs Miles. My middle name was chosen by rolling on a random name table in an old edition of the FASA Mechwarrior game.”“I said refrain from humor!” the purple skinned woman said, her voice shifting from serious to utterly dire.“I am!” Merton exclaimed.Thuwit rubbed a finger along his temple. He licked his silvered lips and started to pace backwards and forwards, turning on his.