” Robin responded. “I slogged through many campaigns before I got to where I am.”“I know, I know.” The guard nodded sheepishly. “But I ain...��t got the skills or the ambition. I’m happy being a lowly guard. No excitement or fancy slaves for me, no sirree. The dockside brothels are cheap enough.”Robin sighed again, and turned away. Perhaps it was for the best, he thought of the two pretty little slaves he’d captured personally in the previous campaign that waited for him at his house, and felt a. " He patted his belly. "T'will keep us for a year at least." And this?" Anne shook the heavy box in her hands."T'other half. Goes to the men that fitted her out and to your father as owner, fifty-fifty I suppose. Less costs, lawyers fees and the like, it's, I believe, some twenty-six hundred pounds, a draft for two thousand, bill of credit actually, with interest of course, but several rolls of guineas that were on one of the ships, twenty I think, and some paper currency and other coins that. Alice added with a smirk, “And that likes to fuck like a horny rabbit.”Duncan blushed, “Errr, there is that, too.”Dave and Duncan loaded up the luggage rack on the golf cart, and the three rolled up the road to the parking area next to Dave and Alice’s home. Alice had pointed out the townhouses and some of the other physical features of the Circle as they’d driven past them. Dave had taken the long way around the racetrack of Circle Drive to show off the homes and also to point out the. "The senior commander, a sergeant, continued calmly and coolly leading his men into battle – undoubtedly their first battle ever. "Tango team, this is Tango Leader. Tango Six on me. Tango Two and Four, head top. Tango Three and Five go for starboard low, I'll take port low."Samantha found herself studying her fingernails. Odd the things you remembered when you were trying to distract yourself – she hadn't needed to cut them since she popped out of the med pod all those months ago in Earth.