Will try and be more quiet next time’ I said, genuinely sorry, a little red in the face, but pleased she knew that me and her sister had a good time...‘Not your fault, it wasn’t you I was hearing…it was Lucy’ she replied, with a half smile, half frown and looked down at the table.It was at this point that I wondered, was there a hint of jealousy in that. Is there a small chance that Beth wished it wasn’t happening to Lucy, but to her? She had some boyfriends, but all too immature to do anything,. Of course, by the time he was ready to graduate it was plain to all that it was probably to the good that he was on the runty side when he started. Otherwise the top cadet would have been four years younger than the next oldest graduate and that would have rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. His starting physical performance evaluations were just low enough that he graduated fourth in his class and not first. By the time he was sworn in as a lieutenant, nobody would spar with him, either. "I'm sure not," she told me. "He's hung in there all these years and hasn't done anything about it, well, not really, he's got to love her. It'll make things better for them, him and her both, not worse. I don't even know why I thought of that story, I just did." Too close to home," I said. "You know, you might want to keep little tid-bits like that to yourself, huh?" Do me a favor, don't say that for a while, honey, OK?" she popped up."What? 'Keep it to yourself?' I don't—" 'You know, '" she. I will leave you to get dressed.” She said and made a gesture with her hands and vanished in an instant. Wind swirling lightly around the room. I looked at my stuff and was even glad to find my knife among my possessions which had been cleaned thankfully. Every thing had been cleaned and polished and laid out on the table.Sadly I was out of arrows still but I was sure that they wouldn't be to hard to find. As I got dressed I looked at the scar on my arm that had faded and was no longer raised..