Uh ... a bad person?” Nina asked when Gee told her and Karen about the kids’ suggestion.“No, they understand you’ve been through a lot but tho...ght maybe you could just use a friend your age to have fun with,” Gee said.“I don’t know what to do!”“Maybe that’s something a friend could help with,” Karen said. “I’ve worked in the woods with all those kids and if they say they want to be your friend, that’s exactly what they mean.”“Okay.”“Maybe we could invite one over this weekend to help decorate. But I knew it I was going to grind with this black, blue dressed woman I would need to make a move and do it fast. I had seem multiple people starring at her from the corner of my eye and I even started to feel some people trying to push me away from standing behind her, So they could take the spot of having her bump up against them. So I slowly moved closer to her and felt her bumps up close. the woman's bumps contunied at the same pace despite obviously feeling that someone was standing right. , ignoring the plaintive muffled groans of the girls.He emerged into the bar of La Belle Aurore. Rick, the owner, was sitting at a table near the bar. On the far side of the room Sam, the bar's pianist and one of the finest jazz musicians in Paris, was chatting with the small knot of girls that had gathered around him as he improvised a short tune at the keyboard.Clegg leant on the bar and ordered a Pastis. He turned to Rick. "One for you?" he asked.Richard Blaine looked up from the table and. Both that Erica has been arrested, and the reasons for it. Fucking idiot Colonel Yarnway and his lackey Lynch. I so want to see Lynch hanging from a tree, not that there were any on Darling Downs, but I'm writing this from a cabin on Freya. The last of the Wadi troops were pulled off Darling Downs this morning. Erica isn't with me. She's being taken to Borneo on one of the corvettes. Our tank as well as Horace's tank are in a transport pod attached to the Peterbilt, a stagecoach class freighter.