. I assume you are referring to walking time?" Yes .... so we live that close to each other .... this is just so bizarre.... wonderfully bizarre," she...said with a laugh.As we stood, I felt something .... a drip making its way to freedom.... and I said something like, "Oh crap,.... I wasn't prepared for that,"kind of just speaking to myself.I looked in my purse and found no tissues so I asked Jill, "Do you happento have a tissue in your purse?"She did and she handed it to me before I walked over. In the bedroom, Henry turned and clasped Tamsin to him and kissed her very thoroughly. At the other side of the huge bed Charles swung Janice to him and lowered his face to kiss her. For a moment she held him off and then, seeing her husband kissing his own daughter in front of them, she mentally shrugged and offered her face to be kissed.In the common usage of the ship, neither woman had much on by way of clothing; Janice wore a sun dress and Tamsin a smock. Both wore knickers, but neither. He was dressed well, in black jeans and an open collared shirt with a suit jacket over it. He had an expressive manner, gesturing with his hands as he spoke, wide hazel eyes and shoulder length blonde hair. I realized as he continued that I had noticed him before, at the party and at the coffee shop… He paused for a moment, then looked at me through slightly clouded eyes. ‘I followed you when you ducked into an alley about a mile back… I watched as you fed off of that man…’ With a wry smile I. Likea frightened soldier crept warily on a dangerous open minefield,I tiptoed softly to my only refuge Mum."Aunt Jessica! Who's that? Is she with you?" a small femalevoice rose above all the loud chattering, silencing everyone inthe room. I froze in my step instantaneously. Turning my headtimidly to the source of the voice, it was in the form of ascantily dressed teenager. She is Uncle Joe's daughter Alice, ayear older than I am. All eyes fell on me at once.My uncles and cousins exchanged.