Your Aldershot 'wife' was tasty, but your real wife is a stunner!"Toby Belcher had me to thank for saving his arse over the Christmas when he had been...the worse for wear with drink. It would have meant dismissal from the army if he had been found drunk on duty, and he owed me, and the lads on guard with me, a great deal."Jenny's a nurse at Swindon General. I met her when one of the platoon had to be taken to Accident and Emergency after getting heat stroke on a speed march. I fell in love with. It was late and I was laying in bed staring up at my ceiling unable to sleep. My headphones were on as usual. Radiohead's 'Creep' was softly playing but I wasn't really paying attention to it; It was just one of those songs that I had now officially listened to so much that I couldn't even hear it if that makes sense when I noticed her bedroom light snap on next door. Without even realizing it I was up and out of my bed and peering at her as she slowly undressed. I took in all the details of. " Big Black," he said, interrupting me."Yeah," I said. "Evidently, I named him while delirious. I had another name picked out for him, but I let my subconscious be my guide."Later that afternoon, Owen ran me down."It's snowin' like crazy at Respite," he said."Had to happen," I said. "I'm just glad I'm not in it." Me, too," he said."How are the appaloosas doing?" I said."Good, no problems. Vardis says Appy isn't cantankerous anymore. Those appaloosas are mountain-bred horses, boss. The cold and. The western sky had changed from an inky darkness to a rich royal blue. She was breathing now with a slow measured pace, in through the nose and out through her mouth; the breathing of one experienced in meditation. She stretched out her arms palms upward and closed her eyes.A flaming orb edged over the horizon sending probing fingers of light across the sky. Almost immediately a luminescent digit found the exposed shrub before her and engulfed the plant in a sea of simmering golden light. She.