Don't worry about it, my cat frequently judges me - he'll just level that deadpan stare on me until I feel suitably ashamed at myself for having disturbed him, and then he'll settle back to sleep, heaving this huge pointed sigh. (My cat really does sigh, it's kind of weird.)

You are a million different kinds of too good to me, you and your lovely praise. Zoro's fun to write when he's still a little too rough around the edges at the beginning to the series, and that set-up, with the bondage and all, was just toooooo good to ignore. XD

Shanks is a dirty old perv (and we love him for it) and I'm sure he was very craeful to make sure Ben was nowhere in ear-shot before he began his drunken tales of debauchery. I'm sure Ace learnt that cocky smexy smirk of his from Shanks. ;)