On reaching the beach, I headed for my normal spot beside the big rock, where I settled myself down to catch some rays and dozed for a while. I think ... told you that I used the rocks shadow as a kind of alarm clock. As the sun moved across the sky the shadow would eventually begin to fall on me around twelve o’clock. That gave me the option of going up for an early lunch, or taking another swim out to the headland and back first. I have no idea how long I lay there dozing before something. ” He was speaking in clipped sentences, like he was addressing his men back in the day or something.“Uh, daddy...” Sara started, looking down at the coffee cup.“Don’t interrupt,” he snapped. “You underestimate your old man. You’ll be out of school the rest of the week with a bad late-season flu. I’ll have a doctor’s note by 0700 tomorrow.”She looked at him pleadingly. She’d just been violated by a giant monster and he thought she’d be back at school in a week like nothing happened?“I see you’re. ."Brian carried the empty mugs to his kitchen. Then he sat on the sofa.Debra sat on his lap. He stroked her cheek, kissed her lips and then lifted her glasses from her. "I love your eyes ... even if they do their little dance for me." He stroked her cheek again. "I love your broad forehead..." My egg head?" It makes you look intelligent. I like intelligent girls. And, I love your skin ... and your hair..." You seem to love the things about me that I don't particularly care for," she said."I. The warmth was spreading into the cold feathers and getting reflected back to us. I was caught in a dilemma of feeling her body, relaxing into the warmth of bedding, and pulling away from my own blood, getting physically too close. The door yanked open. Our mother stormed in. She ripped me up to standing and out of the room by my hand. Standing dazzled and receptive for the surely coming admonition, I saw her push a young, tender faced man of the age of my sister into the room. I was surprised.