I felt her heart beating in her chest. It wasn't all from the hard play we'd just been engaged in.10,000 years of loneliness sloughed off me. As if I'... been covered in mud and walked under a waterfall. How do I put it into words? One second I was lonely, without anyone. The next I was fulfilled, totally content. I would have been happy to stand there forever, just soaking in the love she was exuding.Butterfly looked at me. "Hey. Old Man. Kiss me while I can still breathe."That snapped me out of. It would just be my luck to succeed with the mortars and have the tube fail and explode in my face. The tube was the finest metal but I was new to making such things and needed to be cautious about the tubes and explosives. Not seeing any problems I picked up the last mortar shell with the largest launching charge I dare use. At the last moment I remembered to remove the safety pin, which made me feel foolish. On the other hand, it was a reminder that I'd have to train a few gunners and make. Of course, I could go peek ... LOL.Sometimes I fly naked and that's really cool and stupid at the same time. Cool, because I'm naked and someone could see me flying around up there, and stupid because I share the air with flying nocturnal creatures. A bird can be a life-threatening collision in the dark—to the bird, at least—and I've hit any number of bats and wiped out a gazillion flying insects. Some nights I come home looking like a paintball victim. I've taken to protecting my eyes with. "How long have you been paddling the boat" "err about two hours now"."Hmm, i'll paddle now, you can sunbathe for a bit if you want" So we switched places and i laid with my shirt off on my back and drifted to sleep thinking of my mom and what i could do to her. I awoke to her shoving me "John I don't know where we are", i looked around and couldn't see the car anywhere but what i sould see was a white patch on my shorts."It appears you have gotten us lost" I chuckled. It was now about 6pm and.