”“Then lead on,” Venni said.They followed the guard east, down a narrow street with old buildings that were four or five stories tall, built so ...lose to each other that they were touching. Shops and other businesses lined the first floor of the buildings, though most were closed for the night. The lights shining through the upper-floor windows suggested apartments. There were more people out and about here, which helped to relieve the eerie feeling they’d had since arriving, but any time they. I mentioned a part I read about swingers in the book and she told me she had watched a special on cable about it. I said nothing more, just looked at TV some more. After a couple minutes, she looked over at me and asked if I had ever considered swinging? I told her I had thought about it but was afraid to ask her. She said that she had thought about it herself. I jokingly said maybe we should try it sometimes and she surprised me by saying she was willing to try if I was! Well, that got me hard. Then we can look for some sort of potatoes and green leafy things. The poisonous plants that I remember reading about seem to be certain types of mushrooms, which we can ignore, and perhaps some fruits, but I think we will be fairly safe if we limit our early trials to small bites.”“What about fish?”“Damn! You have a way with the obvious, don’t you? Why didn’t that occur to me right away? Hey! You’re not just a pretty face ... and legs ... and a killer ass ... and...”“Men”!, was all she said as. ’ ‘What did he do?’ ‘Oh you don’t know, no one has ever told you?’ ‘No they haven’t, should I have known?’ ‘I don’t know, perhaps the right opportunity never came up. But your gran and grandfather knew all right.’ ‘I suppose that’s why they didn’t look too surprised when you dropped the bombshell on us this evening.’ ‘Neither were a lot of other people. It’s been what you might call common knowledge with some folks for some time now. Maybe they weren’t sure of the details, but they knew what.