..” I said giving in“Joy you can stay here, that's no problem but I think I should let your mum know at least where you are so she knows you're sa...e, ok?” I said“Ok” was all she saidI stood and went to the kitchen to phone Esther. I told her she was here with me and she could stay for as long as she needed to. I didn't tell her what Luke did, I thought that was up to Joy to tell them.I went back into the living room and said to Joy “Come on let me show you your room and get you sorted” and held. The crew who could hit the target would get an extra ration of rum, causing the gun captains to go to inordinary pains whilst laying their guns. One after one, the main deck 18-pounders went off. Most rounds came close enough to the target, but three gun captains received a dressing-down from Lt. Hearn for their poor aim.Next came the starboard six-pounders and 32-pounder carronades. In general, the Royal Navy six-pounders were fairly accurate guns, but none of the shots fell close to the. But then I followed his gaze and looked down the front of my body. My breath hitched. There, at the front of my skin-tight, pink teddy shorts, was a dark stain, right in the center. “Uh, it’s not what…” I started to explain, but the widening grin at my flushing cheeks and the knowing wink he sent me made me falter. “You sure?” he teased and took a step closer so he was less than an arm’s length away. My breathing sped up. God, I could reach out and run my hand over his muscled chest if I tried.. “It’s over for today, Caleb, I know it takes some time to trust that you are back in reality, but you are.”I sighed with relief and then had a thought.“Why am I spending so long at school?” I asked her.“You need to get your degree,” she said.“So why can I not just share the memory of a grade A student of all his classes, and then do the exams?”She grinned. “I wondered how long it would take you to think of that. We can accelerate learning in that way, but it isn’t that simple. Your memory.