He had felt her physical presence withdraw, reduced only to shadow and air, anchored solely by the most tenuous of threads to the world around him. Th...y watched her as she collected herself, the effort of shifting dimensions understandably taxing. ‘I don’t do that very often in the light,’ she breathed, glancing up at them with a dark smile. Though he hadn’t even realized he’d been monitoring it up until it changed, Kevin noticed her heart which, from the moment they’d stepped onto the beach. “What about your wife?’“I left my wife some months ago”, he replied as he got up and took the cups and saucers back into the kitchen. “Whether we divorce is an open question, at the minute we are separated. I have moved into a mobile home in one of the upmarket caravan parks, I am only renting for I don’t know what path she or myself will take; so to answer your question the wife is no longer part of the equation”. It was almost as though a magician had come along and wiped her expression from. Both randy parties had to contain their urges as they showered separately and all too soon left for their jobs.The day seemed to drag and unknown to each other they both managed to masturbate themselves off in their office toilets, sixty miles apart, at lunch time. Eventually they met up again at five pm as they now prepared for their doctor's appointment at seven. Barely talking to each other they tried to avoid contact with each other as they prepared their bodies in readiness for the probing. "Damn, did you guys go out and call all your friends?" I asked smiling. I turned and went to the bar for another drink."Max the place is always full. You know that," One of them said."True," I replied from several feet away at the bar.One of the middle aged ladies, and we use that term generically, came over to speak with me. Maxine me and Trish have something working, How about you coming along."Ruthy, you know you supposed to be retired. To keep the peace once you move here, and to continue.