They sat and drank their ration of beer, and spoke of carnal pleasures outside of wedlock, and boasted of how many men they'd slain. And they claimed ...o be soldiers of God ... pathetic.Most had already discarded or lost the cross given to them by their legates. Mine lay safely in a pine box I made with my own hands.But I was different. I believed in our cause. The rest were mere sell swords. They offered their blades like a whore offered her body ... if the price was right. They were all of. She took the card for a moment then handed it back. ‘Just erase it.’I felt good that she trusted me to dispose of the evidence. Emily stood quiet for a moment then said, ‘So’.‘So,’ I said back. My heart was pounding again.‘You want to?’I nodded. ‘You?’Emily smiled. ‘That’s all I thought about all day. I was so wet I was wishing I had an extra pair of underwear’.She looked down at my crotch. ‘Looks like you’ve been having the same thoughts’.Oh yea! Christmas morning all over again.‘Emily, that’s. I poured myself some coffee thankful that the coffee maker actually worked, or more so that I had remembered to actually put water and fresh coffee grounds. I made me a cup and added my sugar and cream and sipped it enjoying the flavor.Then I heard a knock a light knock at the door. I swore if it was those damn kids across the hall again I was going to kill them. It wasn’t that I didn’t like children but those were damn hell spawns across the street. I sighed when I heard a knock again. Guess. ” “Tell me more,” I said. I saw the tears in her eyes and kept silent, waiting till she composed herself. “The next morning I made us some tea, and brought it into the bedroom to drink. You girls were not awake yet, thank goodness. I wanted to talk to her about what we had done.” She sat up in bed and I sat on the edge of it, and for a few minutes sipped our tea in silence. Nothing was said for the longest time, and then quietly I asked Cindy what had come over us. She stared into her cup.