.. ," I said, smiling back at her, "my leave will be up in a couple days so I'll be heading back to my ship." You know," she admitted in a rare moment...of candor. "After you graduated, I really missed seeing you around school. Do you still sing and play the guitar?"Yeah, I have a guitar aboard ship with me. A couple of my shipmates and I have a little 30 minute radio show we do just before the ship's movie a couple nights a week." Looks like you picked a bad day to go fishing," Jenny said,. We were to meet at his place for dinner. I took his address and noticed that it was in an upmarket suburb. We sat a little while longer and when it was time for me to leave for the interview, we walked to the car park together and our anticipation was difficult to subdue. I was not prepared to be openly affectionate with a man and we said our goodbye with no physicality, but we both expressed how excited we were to have met and couldn’t wait to meet later. The remainder of the day was a drag as. “There’s going to be hell to pay when we go out there,” Paul said as he stared at the bedroom door.“Yeah,” Marcy mournfully agreed.They each subconsciously embraced the other; Marcy’s fingers curled gently around Paul’s chest hair, as if trying to cling to him like a strip of Velcro, while Paul slipped his arm around the small of her back and gently grabbed hold of his other hand.They both had a pretty good idea what would happen when they went out to join the others. It was going to be the. The crowds howled their derision as they were paraded through the streets ofthe capital before being marched off in chains to the dreaded mines of Edtilia.Of the 180 led away only 34 survived the seventy-mile trek to the mines andfortunately none of those survived more than a month in the dark tunnels below. This was how Lien Venrihet the fifth introduced himself to the country hewould rule. It wasn't long before the nobility was longing for the good olddays when Lien's father "The Butcher" had.