”I saw Liz frowning.“If you tried to rope off Yosemite, I’d call you on it,” I said. “It’s no different.”“I guess I didn’t look at i... that way,” Liz said. “For someone like me, it’s the only way I can go to the beach with any sort of privacy.”“And that’s too fucking bad,” I said. “It’s the price you pay for courting fame. Fame means you don’t get privacy in public places. That can’t be a surprise to you.”“I guess,” she said. I saw that I was casting a pall over her good mood.“I didn’t mean to. Zoë shyly but gratefully agreed to let him read it.Randy made no attempt to kiss her when he dropped her off, merely squeezing her hand gently."Would you like to repeat that next Saturday?" he asked."Yes please," replied Zoë enthusiastically.They exchanged telephone numbers.Emma teased her when she rang to say that she would not be home for Saturday night the second week in a row. Zoë refused to be drawn. Emma did ask her to try and make the following weekend as Joanna and Simon were coming. I was furious. We fought and she left in tears pleading I didn't tell her husband. Hubby looked at the floor sheepishly as I savaged him. I asked how he'd feel if he'd come home and caught me a that - he replied he wouldn't mind if it was what I wanted. I went fucking mental, not the answer I'd wanted.That Friday I was going out with the girls and I told him I was going to fuck a stranger just to see how it sat with him - he just looked sheepishly at the floor and said nothing. So off I went in. ’ Drerin walked on in silence another sedil after Furen’s speech before he finally spoke in response. ‘You won’t be letting me take the Goreya DeiShun test will you?’ ‘No Drerin I will not. If you are determined to take it, you must kill me to get to Hagabor alive.’ ‘So I’m to be a Drahen DeiShun then, if I survive your training and tests for me?’ ‘That is my plan, yes.’ The two continued on in silence after that, each walking in their own thoughts, until finally without any verbal.