Hee! The lay thing was intentional (notice Ronon says it correctly a couple of lines earlier) because it sounded more like Rodney to me that way? The other way sounded more formal to me than the way Rodney talks. If it's knocking readers out of the story, though, maybe it's a poor choice and I should change it ...

And thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :) Yeah, I think I had to work a little bit to sell *myself* on the idea of Rodney giving massages, but the more I thought about it, the more it kind of made sense for him.