Robyn had been staring blankly at Sportacus for two minutes now and he was starting to get worried. He lifted one of his hands up and waved it in front of Robyn's eyes and she blinked in response. Robyn came back into the real world and grimaced slightly remembering what she had to do and not feeling at all comfortable about it.
"Hmmm, would you be able to walk if I helped you?" Robyn asked with a slight hint of edginess in her voice.
Sportacus thought for a second and decided that he had to whether he could or not. His problem was a major imposition on Robyn and he had to help her out as much as he could. "I guess," Sportacus said finally.
Robyn nodded and helped Sportacus up into a sitting position. Sportacus managed to slide himself close enough to the edge of the bed to swing his legs over and put his feet on the floor. Robyn positioned herself so she could help Sportacus stand and support him at the same time; it took three attempts for her to get Sportacus standing without his legs giving way. The two of them took small baby steps to the bathroom, getting there that way was a lot easier than anything else they could have tried and were in the bathroom within five minutes. Robyn got Sportacus safely into the bathroom and in front of the toilet and was about to leave him to do his business when he called her back.
"I might a need a hand getting my trousers and underwear down; I can't support myself with both hands on the wall and do my trousers at the same time." Sportacus coloured furiously at asking this and could hear Robyn mutter something behind him. He wouldn't have asked but he was facing the wall and leaning on it with both hands in front of him to keep him standing and wasn't confident enough about staying standing if he took one of his hands away.
Robyn was blushing herself and with extreme reluctance walked over to Sportacus. She had no idea how to go about doing this without making the situation even more awkward then it was already. Robyn lifted one nervously shaking hand to Sportacus waist line and undid the fly of his trousers with the other, once this done she moved her hand from the fly to the other side of his waistline and gently pulled down his trousers. Offering Sportacus some kind of privacy Robyn closed her eyes as she pulled down his underwear and quickly left the room to let him do what he needed. Robyn had no idea that Sportacus felt just as embarrassed as she did if not more so for the sake of modesty about body parts.
Ten minutes later Sportacus was back in bed and Robyn was lying face down on her own bed. Both of them sat in a rather uncomfortable silence which had been brought on by a small incident in the bathroom by which Robyn's hand had slipped when pulling Sportacus' underwear back up and had brushed against the part of the body which distinguished Sportacus as a man. Robyn had been so entirely embarrassed by this that she'd had to resist running out of the airship and leaving Sportacus to fend for himself. As for Sportacus he'd felt almost the same way and was three thousand times more embarrassed than Robyn when his body reacted to the touch and had severely wanted the floor to open up and swallow him.
Sportacus felt extremely uncomfortable, the reaction he'd had to Robyn's touch was still there and he knew he had to do something about it. Deciding to handle to situation delicately Sportacus came up with the perfect way of getting Robyn to leave the airship long enough for him to do what he needed.
"Robyn?" Sportacus asked cautiously lifting his head so he could see her.
"Mmmmm hmmmmm?" came a muffled response; Robyn had her head buried in her pillow.
"Would you mind going to your flower garden to pick some flowers for me? They'd brighten the place up a bit and would make me feel better."
Robyn lifted her head from her pillow but was unable to look Sportacus straight in the eye without blushing, "sure. Any particular flowers you want?"
Sportacus thought for a few seconds and then replied, "Surprise me."
Robyn nodded and got up off of her bed. Sportacus heard her call for the ladder and closed his eyes sighing in relief. With Robyn now gone he could make himself more comfortable.
Robyn walked the short distance to her flower garden and inspected each of her six flower beds. She walked around them for quite a while trying to decide which would be the best flowers for her to give to her uncle. Eventually Robyn came to a decision and picked two flowers from each bed except the one she had reserved especially for the place where Robbie had died and Robbie's grave side.
Robyn realised that there wasn't a vase in the airship for the flowers and decided to ask the Mayor if he had any spares. She left her garden and walked over to the Mayor's house. It didn't take long for her get to the Mayor's house and when she came to the window she could smell the delicious aroma of a freshly baked cake and closed her eyes in utter ecstasy while she breathed in the wonderful smell.
"Hello Robyn, what can I do for you?"
Slowly opening her eyes Robyn noticed the Mayor standing on the other side of the window and shaking her head to wake herself up from the hypnotic properties of her favourite scent replied, "I was wondering if you have any spare flower vases. I've picked some flowers for Sportacus but he doesn't have a vase in the airship."
"Of course, I'll just look for you." The Mayor walked away and came back in a few seconds with a vase.
Robyn nodded her thanks and was about to head back to the airship when the Mayor called her back, "how are things going with you and Sportacus?"
Yet again Robyn adopted her blank stare and then simply said, "Fine," and walked away rather hurriedly leaving the Mayor scratching his head with confusion at her strange actions.