Its owners closely guard the secrets to thewaters within, said far and wide to have mystical healing properties.They have no idea how right they are.....----The Gladiator----Spiculus shook his head in exhaustion as he hiked further up themountain trail. As a younger man this trek would have been a light jogbut age and mileage had done their damage. Now, the old warrior wasmore of a wearier.In the arena, in his prime, Spiculus had been unmatched. More hadcheered for him then grains of wheat in. They walked for several minutes, neither talking. Both just watching the night, and where they placed their feet.As he led her towards the place he had prepared, his senses were alert for any trace of The Others. They had tracked him to the town, but had seemed to have left. He could not sense them near. As they reached the place, he pointed.She looked upon a large blanket on the sand, some pillows and a bottle of champange in a small ice bucket, 2 glasses and several unlit candles. "Please,. To get ... to take your clothes off in front of each other?”Jessie gave that question a few moments thought before answering. She wasn’t sure how much she should say about the Tuesday afternoon session in the Communal Dormitory so all she said was, “Well, not too long I guess. Only a day, I suppose.”After a brief pause she continued on with, “Well, actually, some of us had started exploring the Communal Dormitory over there which is only meant for naked campers. We decided we should be naked. " Debra shouted as Ray who simply stood looking at her with a blank look on his face. He was at a total loss for anything to say. "I told you this is what it was gonna be, and I'm not fucking doing it!" She shouted at him and then began mocking what he had told her last night "No Deb you'll just play hostess maybe sing'em a song! IDIOT!" she scowled under her breath. Ray dropped his eyes to the floor knowing she had been right. He had feared she was right from the moment she warned him what.