" Well you kind of were, weren't you?" put in Vera. "You didn't play in thefirst round, so you weren't really entitled to play in the Final." Mymoth...r shot her a black look. "And then there's that 'not actually being awoman' thing..."Vera wasn't afraid of my mother, and she had her own code of ethics. Shewas perfectly happy to help me impersonate Dolly, but she didn't reallyapprove of why I was doing it. If it comes to that, I didn't either. Mumchose to ignore her comments."She doesn't. The chill which rode upon her fingers sent shivers throughout my body, but their feather-light softness warmed my soul. As she reached the tag under the collar, she read off, ‘liner: 70% cotton, 30% poly…’ She stopped short of polyester when she saw my eyes. I had been watching her as she read, and as our eyes met, a long second froze us colder than the air around us. As the bells from the school began to toll, we stepped apart. Elena and I shivered once more, as the spaces where we had touched. He showed more of a liking for the fields and the water than his half-brother and Eoric could sense that the boy felt the same 'pull' from the sea that he himself did.Both the children continued to be hungry for knowledge and this led to periods of incessant questioning. Eoric found he sometimes had to draw some energy from nature just to keep himself from being tired out as he tried to keep up with everything they wanted to know. The mental communication between the father and his sons was. And then her eyes closed and she sighed, sinking down a little with her knees bent outward. I automatically looked at her crotch and saw that Jennifer had inserted a second finger. Heather dropped the skirt in order to grab Jennifer's forearm."What are you waiting for?" Jennifer asked me, her voice raspy and her hand moving the fabric of Heather's skirt.I opened my shorts. Jennifer leaned forward to nibble Heather's ear with her eyes on my face the whole time. I was sure that what she was doing.