Our first few days on the road were uneventful. All our stopovers had been meticulously planned. Support runners accompanied, and then met us as planned, all arranged by Stapleya via the 'Bedrock Telegraph'. No word of the stranded couriers responsible for delivering our weaponry. By now we considered them likely dead, eaten by the predators. Surviving one night was unlikely. Multiple nights, quite impossible.
On the fifth day we were approaching our destination, the castle nearest the site of the first portal. This had been a long run, and we were pushing our margin of error, but would be behind stone soon. Our support runners had failed to appear, which caused some concern. Our supplies exhausted, we were running on our bodily reserves, weak, tired and exhausted, unsure how far away from the castle we were.
Tomorrow we would run to the portal location, a distance of about eighteen miles. There we would collect the …show more content…
I won't claim that she was the love of my life, that I felt about her the way I had my dear Estelle. No one will ever fill that gap. Nor had I fallen into a slobbering, lustful trance the way Fitz described himself. We found comfort and release in each others arms. Need there be more? I dunno.
It is possible that owing to knowing more about her than Fitz had when he fell in love with her, having some inkling of her true age, blunted our affair. I was aware of the vast gulf in age difference. I had considered Estell an older lover. Ha! Teena admitted she had known Edda. I could not determine exactly how long ago Stapleya's distant, multiple-Great Grandmother had lived, but it was a long time.
Estelle was but an infant compared to Teena. What did that make me? Aren't there laws about pedophilia? Okay, I know our age difference in no way implies I am an immature child. Still, you have to admit there have doubtless been few cases where lovers differed more in
On the fifth day we were approaching our destination, the castle nearest the site of the first portal. This had been a long run, and we were pushing our margin of error, but would be behind stone soon. Our support runners had failed to appear, which caused some concern. Our supplies exhausted, we were running on our bodily reserves, weak, tired and exhausted, unsure how far away from the castle we were.
Tomorrow we would run to the portal location, a distance of about eighteen miles. There we would collect the …show more content…
I won't claim that she was the love of my life, that I felt about her the way I had my dear Estelle. No one will ever fill that gap. Nor had I fallen into a slobbering, lustful trance the way Fitz described himself. We found comfort and release in each others arms. Need there be more? I dunno.
It is possible that owing to knowing more about her than Fitz had when he fell in love with her, having some inkling of her true age, blunted our affair. I was aware of the vast gulf in age difference. I had considered Estell an older lover. Ha! Teena admitted she had known Edda. I could not determine exactly how long ago Stapleya's distant, multiple-Great Grandmother had lived, but it was a long time.
Estelle was but an infant compared to Teena. What did that make me? Aren't there laws about pedophilia? Okay, I know our age difference in no way implies I am an immature child. Still, you have to admit there have doubtless been few cases where lovers differed more in