And the sun was telling me with insistent warmth that my body was special. I undid the top of my dress, as though plucking the printed violets. The sc...nt of the wild flowers was so strong in the air I might just as well have been. Languorously—nothing was quick in this heat—I obeyed the sun's request to warm my breasts. The sun rewarded me. I didn't need my fingers' caress to know my nipples were rising to the warmth and the unaccustomed exposure. I offered each in turn, relishing the sun's. After a good breakfast served by our new cooks, I pulled Seamus and Wolf aside to speak to them."I will be creating the Portal to Gilmore's Station today when I take Captain Moore out there. Each of you should also create the Portal from the other forts where we are setting up. Seamus, check if there is room to turn a couple of wagons around inside Fort Washington. Wolf, set up the Portal at Mount Sterling so the wagons can be driven out of the fort to turn around before returning to be. A fumble around and I found my length of tubing and funnel. Something I had done many times as a paramedic, I slipped it down his throat. Now for the main ingredient, I had previously dissolved a full bar of Laxettes in a bottle of cheap whiskey; remembering as a child, my sister and I finding a bar in the kitchen cupboard mistaking it for a bar of chocolate, we gutsed the whole bar and before too long we were shitting through the eye of a needle. I poured the whole concoction down Barry's. Satisfied with my reactions, she launched one last barb before ordering me to work, "I'll use that on you later." She usually didn't use it on me, I had persuaded her I really did hate it, but if she didn't occasionally I wouldn't get scared. I earned my use of a safeword when she did. You guessed it, the thought of that also turned me on. I'm a mess, aren't I.Finally the order, she waved the shoes, and asked, "Well?" That was my cue to get the ritual foot washing gear together. I did, and I.