The China Pearl Inn part 7

Sounds like everyone had a good Christmas including our loved ones over "there" no bad news, is good news. And they are together. Sometime that's all you have and you make it enough. So for those of you in the shadows thank you, be safe, do what you got to do to get eachother home. The home fires are burning and I have a fresh candle in the window for you to find your way.
For those of you heading to parties for the New Year celebrations please be safe. The ol inn will be warm and waiting when you get back.
As for me and mine we are going about 45 minutes north for a late family Christmas this Saturday and my plan is to snuggle my wife and children for New Year's. My year may not have been financially as fruitful as I would have hoped but I am so very blessed with friends and family that I have lacked for nothing. I pray that this next year's is just as good if not a little better for all of you.

They were in action Christmas Day. No details yet but they all survived unharmed.

Just leaving for base - holiday over.
 
We did enjoy it, now we’re back to the inn for a nightcap. I turn and see CG asleep in his chair and look round for a blanket while Robyn adds logs to the fire. After wrapping the blanket round him we both kiss him on each cheek and take our drinks back to the real world.

Goodnight CPI :kiss::kiss:
 
We did enjoy it, now we’re back to the inn for a nightcap. I turn and see CG asleep in his chair and look round for a blanket while Robyn adds logs to the fire. After wrapping the blanket round him we both kiss him on each cheek and take our drinks back to the real world.

Goodnight CPI :kiss::kiss:

*Chills a bottle of the finest Vodka she could find and leaves a plate of freshly baked cookies out.*

Just in case you ladies need a top-up. :heart:
 
Watch as most of my chores are done for me by the caring patrons on the inn. I slip down from the rafters after everyone is settled in. Swap the old candle for a fresh on light it and say a few warm wishes for our patrons who are away from the inn for the time being. Bring in some fresh cut fire wood. Finally I curl up near the nice warm fire.
 
Shiva, Robyn, Sal, Raven and Ins_spacetime87 Thank you for your company during the holidays, Robyn and Sal you can keep those kisses coming, I quite enjoy them :devil:ish :D

G G and HSG you are gentle on my mind as I keep you in my thoughts and Prayers.

Well 2017 is winding down before we know it 2018 will be here, a New Year, a new beginning. I wish you all the best in the New Year.
 
I trust we will have the pleasure of your wit and inventive imagination in the coming Year Chris as you find ever more devious and highly questionable experiments both to amuse and terrify me and Phoo Ming my old friend ;) :devil:ish :D
 
I’m sorry to wear my heart on my sleeve today but my mind is with my fellow Lionesses today. The news from where they are is grim but I know they are rising to the occasion, I just wish I wasn’t stuck here on this course while I should be out there with them!
 
I enfold Robyn in the security of my arms and give her a reassuring hug.

If you did not wear your heart on your sleeve Robyn then you would not be you and that would make me sad.;) :rose::kiss:
 
I’m sorry to wear my heart on my sleeve today but my mind is with my fellow Lionesses today. The news from where they are is grim but I know they are rising to the occasion, I just wish I wasn’t stuck here on this course while I should be out there with them!
You shouldn't feel bad about being in training. How else do you expect to be the best Supergirl you can be? *big hugs*

Besides, you're there in spirit hon. :rose:

I enfold Robyn in the security of my arms and give her a reassuring hug.

If you did not wear your heart on your sleeve Robyn then you would not be you and that would make me sad.;) :rose::kiss:

Hiii CG! If there's room in that hug for me, let's make it a group event. :devil:
 
Oh I think that can be arranged Shiva. ;) :devil:ish :D

I enfold Shiva as well as Robyn in a very sensual and perhaps seductive hug.
 
Thank you CG & LS. I’d love to have a joint hug from all of you. I just wish my mother was here - I just feel like a little girl again.
 
We all need to be a little girl or boy from time to time Robyn.

I hug Robyn just a little closer to let her know it is all right to be that little girl a bit longer before she has to once more become a solider of the Queen.
 
Robyn I want to publicly say you are the finest soldier I’ve met and all the other cadets here look up to you. Look what you’ve achieved so far and you’re only 18. I know you miss your comrades but just think, in about five years time you won’t just be there with them. You’ll be leading them.

They don call you ‘Supergirl’ for nothing!
 
Well said Sal!


I trust your paying attention Robyn. I know your feelings and I respect them. I have been there.
 
I feel better now and ‘Supergirl’ is back! Thank you everyone for your support. Storm and I are going out for a quiet drink together.
 
Thank you CG & LS. I’d love to have a joint hug from all of you. I just wish my mother was here - I just feel like a little girl again.

I would love to crack a joke about me never being a little girl so I don't know where you're comming from. And it would be awesome if somehow that joke made everything better.
But I know that it can't and it won't. Just after I left one of my last groups when I was active(full time soldier) they went on a mission. They got hit hard and a number of them did not make it back. The guy who replaced me didn't have what I have. He even said that he didn't think he had what it took to get our guys home. It messed up my head pretty bad for a while.I spent hours going over and over and over the mission. Picked it apart a few dozen times. All of the thing I would have done on instinct that he didn't know to do and the way my teammates would have acted with me there vs trying to watch over the new guy. I could have made a difference, or maybe I would have been in a bag next to them. I almost let people get hurt where I was because my head was not where it needed to be.
But the bottom line is I could not be there. I did not save them. And the truth is you can't save everyone. It hurts when that hits home. But you can't let others down because you are busy beating yourself up about your limitations. That was a hard truth to learn for me.

Robyn you want to make a difference I admire that about you. The fact that you are so young for how far you have come is remarkable. The thing that gets me past my past is Be Here Now. What ever you are doing right this minute, do that heart, mind, and body. You want to protect? Then also teach others to protect themselves. Every one that you teach, acts because of what you gave them to work with. Kindness is more important that harshness. Life is often harsh enough. Be firm when you have to. Be forgiving when you can. Be what your teammates are already calling you, a becon in the dark. Set a standard and help others to reach it. Reaching out to friends like you did here shows people that you are wise enough to seek help, and that human too. In their minds that means they still have a chance to be as good as you. Never be afraid to cry when it hurts. Never be afraid to be a shoulder for someone else that is close to you.
You love your extended family(the people in the military that adopted you as one of their own) and you only get to love one way. All or nothing. The best way to help them over there is be the best you, you can be. And part of that can be helping others get to where you are as a soldier. That means the next rotation is ready to march when this one comes back. And when they get back hug them hold them and have a pint.... or four.
Them knowing that you are back here doing what you do. That you are helping others to be better, that is way more help than anyone at home ever gave me. It give me a lot of comfort to know that people like you are ready to pick up the sword when I have to set it down. I owe you for that and it a debt that I may never get to repay. So the best I can do is give a little advice here and there and promise that you have my respect. And hugs are free to all of the people I call friend.
 
I feel better now and ‘Supergirl’ is back! Thank you everyone for your support. Storm and I are going out for a quiet drink together.

A good idea it is a time for company Robyn.;)

Well said Raven.
 
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Oh I think that can be arranged Shiva. ;) :devil:ish :D

I enfold Shiva as well as Robyn in a very sensual and perhaps seductive hug.

*hugs him and Robyn, silently groping both their behinds* Hugs are what dreams are made of, you guys. :heart:

Thank you CG & LS. I’d love to have a joint hug from all of you. I just wish my mother was here - I just feel like a little girl again.
*offers a gentle hug*

This is probably entirely wrong, but I wouldn't feel like me if I missed the chance to say it. If you're feeling like a little girl, I could teach you a thing or two to make you feel strong.
 
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