" Gosh! I never knew that." Don't worry, Annette. A lot of people don't. Do you know what the fruit of the blackthorn is?" No?" There was a definite q...estion in her answer."Sloes! People pick them to make sloe gin." What?" They pick the sloes in the Autumn and put them in gin and then by Christmas they have sloe gin." What does it taste like?" I've no idea. I've never tried it. Gin and tonic is good enough for me but if you were to ask my sons they'd probably say Yeuch!" Why?" They don't like. There is one ready for us now. That ship is for us to exercise aboard until our own is ready for sea."If Noia thought the first moon was busy, the second was busier still. It seemed that there weren't enough palm-widths in a day to deal with everything that had to be done. She learned like she'd never learned before.Trilium was learning the job of a ship's petty officer. He was a natural at it. The sea was unforgiving of error, and that suited Trilium well. He learned quickly; in fact Noia. Just the sound was enough to give me an erection but added to the glimpse of her soles they gave or even better when she dangled them from her toes then flicked them back up to slap her heel drove me insane. All these thoughts crossed my mind as I sat on her sofa. I was in a dream world in my own fantasy desiring to worship there lovely feet. Then a voice broken into my dream.'Why are you staring at my feet?' they had asked.I was speechless, I wasn't usual caught out but this time I had been. They also said directly that they were going to rape those girls for no other reason than they were with me and there was probably a second half to their payment that they were going to get out of them.”She nodded. “I’ve seen the video,” she told me gently. “You did everything right. You reasoned with those boys and pleaded with them to reconsider and you left them alone once they were out of the fight.”“That’s what the cops and the DA said,” I told her. “I don’t feel guilty about what happened.