The swim was relatively easy, although by the time I got the Succubus I was feeling the burn in my shoulders quite well.The swim was relatively easy, although by the time I got the Succubus I was feeling the burn in my shoulders quite well. "Whew!" I gasped as I seized the railing off the back wall of the boat. "That was pretty good." "Yeah!" San replied, equally out of breath. "I am not in the best of shape!" I laughed. "After you, my dear?" "Thank you," she smiled as she clambered up the back railing and onto the rear deck of my little trimaran. I watched with no small interest her lovely rear and it's accompaniment of long tail as she pulled herself out of the water. "Very pretty," I commented softly as I hauled myself up as well. "Thank you," she laughed, handing me the freshwater hose. I rinsed as well as I could, then took the towel she offered as well. "That's quite a compliment, coming from you," she said, squeezing the excess water from her hair and in a dramatic toss of her head throwing her hair behind her. I smiled as Nance came wandering around the cabin from the front deck. "Sleeping outside, Nance?" "It seemed the thing to do," he said. "The weather's beautiful, we have our sleeping bags, so I strung the finer nets between the hulls and we're sleeping on them. If we slept in the cabin, we'd die of heat stoke." "Which one is Ress sleeping in?" "The port one, although I don't think you could mistake it since it's the one that's occupied right now." "True enough," I admitted, hanging my towel over a strand of line and fixing it down with clothespins we had brought along just for this purpose. "Slight wave tonight," I commented. "But it's not at all windy," Nance admitted. |