“It was the other stuff, you know, that we hadn’t planned for.”“Ohhhhh”, the flatmate responded. “You mean number two?”I nodded, my face...now as bright red as it had been during the actual activity. My friend reached her hand over and squeezed mine in support.“And what you mean ‘more’?”, the flatmate asked curiously, picking up on that part of my comment.This time I looked at my friend for her cue but she semi-shrugged as if to convey that there wasn’t much point keeping secrets now.“Uh, I guess. One of the girls brought out a bottle of bourbon. I did not know this but bourbon is the fashionable alcohol to drink now. I had not had any since my college days and it was always mixed with coke. But these girls were hitting it straight from the bottle. The conversation very quickly became risqué as they started trash talking about old lovers and one night stands. I did not know girls did these things today. Apparently giving a blow-job is as common as a kiss goodnight. The girls love to. I won’t be back until graduation.”Linda turned onto her side so that she was could face him. He moved so that they were looking at each other. She asked, “Who’s going with you?”“Captain Jones,” answered Ed. The soldier still had not accepted the unusual lifestyle led by Ed and Leroy. More time with the man was needed to address that issue.Despite the soldier’s real disgust at the fact that Ed made love to his husband, it hadn’t been difficult to convince the Captain to join him on the trip back. “It’s...” the floor bucked again. “Nallen ... he says it’s a pair of dragons fighting.”“Dragons?”“I haven’t seen them but Nallen told me...” this time the shaking wasn’t as bad. “He told me we’re in the middle of their mating season.”I knew Daddy had just started with the teacher, just started learning Betwan. I hoped whatever that did to turn off the brain while new knowledge was assimilated could keep him out for this.“Is there someplace we can watch?”I passed the question to Nallen. Before.