The Sleeping Army Awakes

Part 75 Sisterly advice

"Well it was really sweet of him to offer," Katka said "Now that he is smartened up and clean, I can see that Samuel has potential but..." Katka breathed deeply.

"He is older than any man that you have ever considered as potential partner..." Eliška interjected.

"Well yes! Precisely!" Katka said. Eliška had hit the nail right on the head. Katka wasn't sure just how old Samuel was... but he had already had a full career in the Navy, which had ended before hers had even started. "He's a nice man... A very nice man and he would make someone a lovely husband..."

"He is not so old really!" Eliška thought. "Mík men can live for a very long time!"

"He might even be old enough to be my grandfather." Katka protested.

"But you could that do far worse than to choose Samuel as husband and protector." Eliška thought. "Samuel has such presence. He is most intelligent and thoughtful man I have ever merged with. And look at alternatives available. There are worse things than an age gap."

"What do you mean?" Katka asked.

"Simply Pawel and Michal aren't exactly God's gift to women... or I suspect fatherhood yet. And Basil..." Eliška's thoughts on Basil were unprintable. "And believe me there are no men suitable in my little town better than Basil."

Katka giggled at the images that flooded into her head concerning Basil. In Basil's mind, any marriage consummation, would require a full team of medical staff standing by to make sure that nothing went wrong.

"I can't help thinking that if I don't marry Samuel then one day my prince will come!" Katka said sadly.

"I think that mine has already come!" Eliška thought excitedly, in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment.

"Really." Katka asked, she was intrigued. "Then your prince has to be Spencer Butler."

"Yes!" Eliška thought. "How did you guess?"

"Not difficult really! You make cow eyes at him all the time... But simply he is not my type!" Katka said dismissively. "I can see why some girls would like him, but he is too formal and effeminate for me."

Eliška was thinking "You bitch do you know how horrible that sounds?" But she was Mík so it wasn't an option. She limited herself to. "But we're not here to talk about Spencer..."

Eliška was put out at just how quickly Katka had excluded her love interest from the equation.

"No!" Katka agreed, and then just too late realising that she upset Eliška because she had been far too dismissive about Spencer. "Not yet! But I'd like to hear about him later... I only saw him for a few minutes before you rushed off. Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving!"

This seemed to placate Eliška for the time being. She began to think that perhaps Katka didn't think of the implications of what she was thinking before she broadcast it...

"Samuel seems really kind, thoughtful and gentle," Eliška said, "Any man who wouldn't mind fathering someone else's son and take the responsibility seriously has to be unusually good... whereas some fathers do not even take an interest in their own children.

"True!" Katka agreed, but it wasn't enough to change her mind yet.

"Well let's look at practical aspects... You'll need someone to protect you and baby and real men are few and far between around here." Eliška added. "And if the baby has no apparent father then he becomes property of your landlord."

"Did Samuel put you up to talk to me like this?" Katka asked suspiciously.

"No of course not!" Eliška thought. "and don't tell him because he would probably be upset that I am interfering!"