This was and would be his primary role but the two had more connecting them than just that.Sir John had been in the service of the Prince Daniel for s...veral years now, fought by his side in battle and now had been assigned the duty of the Prince's personal guard as well as lead knight, responsible for executing the orders of Prince Daniel. It was a position Sir John was proud of and completely satisfied with. He could think of no other, no better, no more important role than to fulfill his. ” But Gina wasn’t interested. A latebloomer, everyone said.One night, after falling asleep reading her latest bookon aliens, she was awakened by a noise in her room. Thelight was already on, so she blinked sleepily towardwhere the noise had come from, but saw nothing. Sheshrugged, thinking it was probably the cat or a baddream (she had them sometimes after a particularlyintense chapter), and turned off the light to go backto sleep.Her fingers wandered then, and in the darkness. I almost laughed when they asked about his social activities since I knew that they were zilch. In fact the more I look at his life the more I am amazed that he functions as well as he does since he is so isolated and alone. I am no psychologist, but I think you have to be strong and happy in your own skin to function as well as he does in his circumstances. If I did not have any friends I think I would go bonkers. I think it is so necessary to have few close friends you can identify with. I. And nature. Looking over the raft, it had a middle section that would comfortably accommodate a short person reclining, while providing plenty of space to the rest of the raft occupants to paddle. I tossed my bag to Shawn, who secured it next to two other packages at the side of the raft while Derek took my small hand and helped me aboard. Once I was seated in the middle of the raft, Victor and he pushed off from the shore, and we were off on my first ever nautical adventure! After we were away.