Climbing in this world is basically free solo climbing or bouldering, maybe bringing a rope to attach at the top to help someone else climb up. Or its using a rope to climb-belay down. It's not really something done as a sport or hobby with special equipment. I've been putting off testing climbing equipment, since it does have a very real risk even with preliminary testing and safety precaution, and the completely natural rope is horrible compared to modern climbing ropes and far from ideal, but it's all we have.

After I show them how to use the equipment, we try it on sloping ground and a one meter drop, Bodil, Hillevi and Raneigh in particular try it, and after a few repetitions try it on steeper ground. After using over weighted bags for more testing they finally try hanging freely off a 3 meter cliff with straw mats resting on sloping blueberry bushes and grassland below. They definitely appreciate how the rope lock is easy to control and they can just hang there on the rope, then adjust their descent speed or stop.

It seems that climbing is something that appeals to Bodil and Raneigh, and as long as they belay properly and have belay ropes and helmets, they can try actually climbing and use wedges and the like for rope attachment. They need to get special helmets made and I'll help them with other equipment like climbing shoes, chalk and anchors and such. If they really enjoy it, there might eventually be built a climbing wall too. They should very carefully and methodically try harder climbs and higher climbs, and not move on until they have trained their muscles, technique and equipment. I don't care about showing bravery, because just climbing is brave, and being perceived as brave often goes hand in hand with stupidity and carelessness. It's smart to use safety equipment and taking it slow. Period. I will be ... annoyed and sad if they get hurt because they didn't use safety equipment and were foolhardy.

There is a bit of tragic humour in how accepted Haera has become by Kari and the bodyguards since Jalida was revealed as pregnant and how she got pregnant. I understand why Haera is a little worried about her upcoming reveal, but we both think it won't get the same reaction by the others. Iselin figured out that Jane knows due to small things, like how she reacted to Haera and feels guilty about it, the message to me over radio and so on, which Jane admitted to when Iselin partially bluffed her. It's good that, Jane keeping the sex with Haera secret even from me, and other things, haven't pushed a wedge between her and Iselin, and that actually seems to have made their friendship firmer.

Working on the metronomes has meant that Jane and Caecilia have become involved in more metal crafting than they have been before. They are both building on metronomes, which has made it almost crowded in my workshop, but Bodil is here less often since the carpentry in the village was finished, and she sometimes disappears to there to do bigger jobs, or get access to all the machines and materials. She also gets on well with Engdrid the carpenter, but everyone thinks it's just friendship. Bodil, Hillevi and Raneigh will probably spend quite a lot of time on sewing and making climbing equipment.

I need to get better at finishing projects instead of just starting more, so I'm trying to finish building the Radio Control RC system. I haven't decided yet exactly how I'm going to physically design the RC transmitter, but it will be some kind of one handed solution, maybe similar to a Wii Nunchuck, to be able to use the transmitter more discreetly in a pocket. I've been thinking about building a new hand grip for my Boomstick for the flashlight and stuff, and could do another for RC transmitter, so I can swap out the top handle if I want or need to be sneaky. But the antenna will be very problematic, and thus poor range. Of course the RC transmitter is not something that will be on the Boomstick all the time, and the grip with the flashlight etc is more everyday practical, and I want to be able to use the RC system without the Boomstick in my hand.

I actually don't want to carry my Boomstick as it is, and I tend to leave it in my room. Maybe I should make a new one based on an air rifle? But I don't want people see me casually use it to shoot small animals and such. A handgun would be better.

Time for Boomstick combat training with Gunhild in the pavilion. Most of the add-on walls of the pavilion are still in place since the wedding, to protect against the winter weather, and we pulled the canvas to cut down on witnesses and keeping out wind, which also reduce the light and visibility.

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Gunhild was definitely not prepared for the flash of light, and I get a nice win where in real life she would have died of a punctured neck and artery squirting blood. Gunhild is shocked and weary for what the hell just happened, not helped by my pleased smile and refusing to say what I did, so Gunhild is much more on her guard and suspicious. Eventually I try again, and it still works, even though she is more defensive. I show her my flash unit and Gunhild admits that it is definitely effective in close combat, and in the dark it would be really effective. I promise Gunhild that she can be a witness next time I train with Alith, as she too will experience flash distraction. Of course I need to train and 'get more data'.

We try it down in the darkness of the cellar, and Gunhild is convinced that it would be difficult to understand what happened because the target and those in the direction of the flash lose sight and for a short while becomes shocked, confused and disoriented. If the stab is done as quickly as I have practised doing and in the right light conditions and moment, it would look like I just threw a lightning bolt that killed someone. Not that I'm actually stabbing the person with a concealed dagger, which is then hidden away and I'm just standing with my hands on the Boomstick in a defensive manner, with no visible dagger in my hands. Nor is there any blood on my belt knife, which also has a different shape and hangs untouched in my belt. Blood splashing on my hands or me doesn't really matter, because if someone has a punctured and cut carotid artery, there will quickly be blood everywhere. So I killed the enemy with 'magic' and not a dagger.

I show Gunhild how effective single flashes can be in indoors CQB combat in the dark, by getting a momentary flash view of the room and enemy, while they are being blinded and losing night vision.

Iselin's secret door was smuggled in by Hrappr simply getting help from Shakini and Ida to carry in while we ate supper, like just another project, and the door is covered with fabric and some wood 'to protect during transport and against the weather'. It seems like no one really cared what it was, including Hrappr. It doesn't really look like a door, and a just a weird iron grid machine thing. After all, here, weird things is practically a daily occurrence.

The movie night with Ciara and Caecilia becomes quite similar to Kari's in how they react to things, but also different, especially when I in the beginning mention that Elvira and Jalida would probably recognise that type of nature, and belatedly realised that mentioning Jalida's name was a bad idea. Ciara was scathing when she commented that Jalida should have stayed there in the desert and suffered, and Caecilia agreed.

I sit in the centre with them leaning against me, with an arm each around their shoulders, and we again have cookies and something to drink. Caecilia prefers wine, just like Jane, while Ciara stick to honey mead, and I with cider. Ciara can drink wine or mead like the others, especially if it's a social occasion, but seems to avoid it normally, and my own dislike for that and thoughts about alcohol might be part of the reason. But she likes the flavour of honey mead, and we still have plenty of it since the wedding. We probably have enough for Kari's wedding too. Ciara sure won't complain if she gets to drink it whenever she wants. Caecilia insists on hand-feeding me biscuits so my hands don't leave them, and she deliberately eats the last of every little biscuit and licks her fingers.

We're not even a third of the way through the movie, when Caecilia kiss my hand and slides it down her cleavage. It's difficult to resist playing with her stiff nipple under what feels like her fashion teddy, and I don't really try to resist since Caecilia clearly wants me to. But the live translation takes quite a bit of focus and distraction, and although I now have practised that, it's hardly the first time I've caught myself forgetting that my hand is resting on a beautiful and sexy woman's breast and nipple. Which is distracting.

At the end, as Sandy walks to John's car, I feel Caecilia's hand smoothly slipping down inside my trousers and start to massage me.

As we prepare to sleep, Caecilia has criticised Ciara for focusing completely on me when there are three of us in bed, and Ciara has criticised Caecilia for not doing so, and both think the other is bad at sex. However, just saying that I love them both, and want them to accept that we all have different views on sex, and that I don't want them to fight, is enough for both of them to settle their dispute. In the future, I'll have to remember to avoid having them in bed at the same time, but I honestly prefer to have all my partners separately, although Iselin and Caecilia are a nice combo. Both are good at utilising what is 'available' and both give and take, but also let the other woman have her own moments with me. And I let them have their own moments too, although both of them tend to quickly get me involved again.

But I lay down to sleep on my stomach with my feet off the bed and my head surrounded by breasts, which also helps to avoid Caecilia placing her hand on my manhood. For I have learnt her tricks, and almost every time is not a coincidence. But I really shouldn't complain that a sexy beautiful woman like her wants to feel me and feel my hands on her.

Thoughts for another day, and I try to focus on the fact that Ciara's body smells nice, and it feels quite nice how she hugs me with on her breasts pushed against my face, even with their gold nipple rings, and how they both hug me.

I really shouldn't complain.

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