I controlled myself and said hi to her continued with my swimming. She sat on the pool bench for 5 mins and was staring at me. I had a good body as wo...kout regularly. Not the 6 pack abs types but not bad too. She removed the bathrobe and my jaw went wide open to see a perfectly structured girl in her prime in a two-piece bikini. I was expecting her to be in a full swimming costume.She was good at swimming and we had some exchange of words and then she came close to me. My heart starting beating. She knew it would be more difficult for an older woman, but not this difficult. This frustrated her in a search for a sexual partner.“There is a better place,” a female voice said as a strange woman slid onto the barstool next to Helen. “But, not the kind of place a good female would go alone.” The woman said matter-of-factly.“Do you mean the neighborhood is rough?” Helen replied. The woman wore a nice, but obviously seductive dress, with a scoop neckline. Helen thought the woman shouldn’t have. I tried to move again, hissing with the pain.“Lay back down. I told you to drink these potions first.” Erandur saw where I was looking. “Oh, sorry. There’s nothing you can do, nothing any of us could do. One of the ice spikes managed to hit him right in the neck, just above his armor and off his gorget.”“It’s still my fault, my responsibility.”Lydia snorted. “Hector knew what he was doing when he joined the Blades. You’re our Thane, our Queen, our Empress. There’s not a one of us down here who. I knew this was the calm before the storm. He woke up as I pulled into Arby’s for lunch when we were about halfway with another 3hrs or so to go. We ate then got back on the road. Then came the catching up.“So, why did a retired 1stSgt call me to see if we’re going fishing this weekend?”“It seems that involving grandfather in my plan is reaping a lot of unintended consequences.”“And that means what?”“Well, I now have an elderly Nepalese Gurkha teaching me all kinds of dirty hand-to-hand.