"Looks like you have a pretty nice axe in here... and some other stuff. You sure it's yours? That axe is kinda heavy."I saw my tin wine cup through th... haze in the Tavern and picked it up. Holding it between thumb and forefinger I bent it flat, watching a few forgotten drops of wine fall to the Tavern floor."Okay... it's yours all right. But I am adding five coins for the cup!" He picked up the cup and briefly tried to straighten it, with no luck. He tossed the cup behind the counter and went. My two sisters were home from college, and I didn't want to hang aroundthe house all day doing laundry. I decided to grab a shower and gosomeplace alone to think.I'd grown up without knowing my Dad, it was just my sisters and Mom, so Iguess I did sometimes act like a girl. Standing in the shower I shaved myarm pits then washed and conditioned my hair.As I dried off I looked at my face in the mirror, still no sign ofwhiskers, maybe if I started shaving my face it would grow, I thought.When I. I didn't meet Allen until the second time I saw you at the airport. Good thing we met, too. Weren't there five soldiers there?" Yes. They are all here, or will be at dinner time." Oh, I remember that spread," said Paul."You remember it?" asked Rob."Sure, I would have rather had it in my paper," said Paul, as he chuckled, along with several others."Let's go down to the conference room," said Tara. "Do you mind if we show the interview on our monitors?" I don't," said Paul."Neither do I," said. Jennifer hadn't quite gotten to the point yet where she would have to start wearing a maternity uniform like Mac and Harriet already were. She was a few weeks behind them in her pregnancy and so far no one knew she'd been knocked up. She was dreading the day that she'd either have to start explaining and telling everyone or that she'd just show up at the JAG offices one morning in maternity clothes. Either way, it would be an interesting moment when she had to let everyone know that she was.