Tina was not happy..."I thought about the pictures when I unpacked. After some serious dithering about whether to keep them or pitch them, I ended up ...ticking them with the others. The right thing to do was confess to Tina and take my lumps. After all, she might not be upset.That didn't stop me from postponing the conversation. When she returned to Tucson a couple of days later, she came over almost immediately. We embraced deeply and quickly found ourselves in bed. Like our last reunion, she. The boarders were still bunched up, organizing, so their immediate plans weren’t clear.Boarding a ship was a common pirate practice. While the Entous was certainly an unusual opportunity it was a worthy prize. “What good is attacking a near defenseless ship if you shred it, unable to plunder its cargo, take slaves and commandeer the vessel, “ I thought. “No, they don‘t want to damage our ship. Nevertheless, this was going to be a messy affair.“Melees with an armed crew can be bloody, conducted. We hung out for a while, and when we were ready to head back to our hotel Nate and Tiffany invited out for dinner that night. We made plans to meet them in their room around 6:00.We arrived a little late after having trouble figuring out which room was theirs. I was wearing my standard T-shirt and jeans, and Johanna had on a short black dress, her firm dancer’s legs on display as usual.We knocked on the door and Tiffany answered. She was wrapped in a little bath towel, her hair wet. She said to. “They’ve really cleaned up the city and it shows. Your friend will know which areas to avoid, but pretty much anywhere in Manhattan is safe.”“You’ve been to New York?”“Yes, to see friends who live there. It’s been a few years, but we had no trouble at all anywhere in Midtown or Downtown, which is where everything you’re going to be seeing is, I believe.”“I think so, yes. The girl I’m meeting, Eleanor, will meet me at the airport. I’m staying with her in her dorm room. Her roommate is away for.