The trickling figure stood in the centre of a shallow square pool, surrounded by smooth flag stones and then by a grassed border skirting up to a colo...naded cloister that hemmed the garden in, providing a screen to the outside world.I took her small hand in mine to lead her away from the site of our tryst, to the coolness of the house I had had built in a Roman style.She hesitated as if frightened by the sudden change of light. A gently guiding hand at the small of her back motivated her. The scents alone sparked older, happier memories in the hardened man but when the steam cleared and revealed stacks of shren legs, filets of lightly breaded qaw fish, even spicy strips of mehfit with sdet and vegetable wraps he hurried to the table side to join the voracious dwarf. Halfway through the second platter of the seasoned qaw, both heard the door start swinging open, but the only reaction that came from them was Drerin growling around a mouth stuffed with the fish, ”bout time ye brawt. I'm living at Jamie's place for the rest of this year." Or at least until they figure out I'm a slut and throw me out, but I wasn't going to volunteer that bit of information. "In fact, I'm sleeping in her room, in her bed, with her. No, we didn't know each other before this happened. Yes, her mother knows that we're doing things with each other. Yes, I have a family. No, this wasn't their idea. Yes, they're living here at Blue Water. No, I do not want to talk about them, nor why I'm staying. Sitting opposite, with an electric jolt I realised I was looking straight up her skirt to her crutch. Couldn't really see much with her thighs still that close together, but there was a black triangle outlined at the centre junction of those pale limbs. I took my eyes away, only to see her looking directly at me. This time I really had been busted! She MUST have known what I was looking at!Didn't seem to bother her though, because she maintained an inscrutable smile and kept on chatting away.