The rings on her nipples glinted in the sunlight that streamed through the skylights. If she was self-conscious about her nudity, she hid it well. ‘...ow do you feel?’ asked Britt. ‘I should be asking you that.’ Britt cocked her head. ‘I’ll be okay, but I’m curious about you.’ ‘Guilty.’ ‘Despite the fact that I gave you permission?’ George shrugged. ‘You have nothing to feel guilty about. I wanted you to do it.’ George wasn’t convinced. Britt smiled. ‘Did you abuse me? Some might say that you. " Aunt Jen, thank you for caring."She read my face. "You're serious." Yes, I'm serious, Aunt Jen. Don't ask me to quantify this. Don't ask me how I know. I just KNOW." I crossed my arms. I was serious. "So does Tim." You know that I will be here for you, baby," Aunt Jen said. "I'll be here for the two of you."I fixed her in my most serious of gazed. "And it will be the TWO of us."Back to the phone call. "You two still..." Uh-huh," I replied, "'Still' leads into 'forever', you know." I smiled at. We had more light than we knew what to do with." Still... Well, our plan to use all the available light now. We have nine hours of light now, and we plan to hike and ride throughout the day. With good weather, we should be back at the village in twelve days. By then, a day will have eight hours of sunlight." Yeah. The light variations on the northern plateau are really something. At the top of our journey, when we found the white antelope, we were more than 1800 km north of the village... Did. "Oh Rob, are you okay? Is it really dead?" Yeah, it's dead. Something this ugly deserves a name, how about a scorpio?" Robert turned and hugged Rebecca, their naked bodies shivering in the cool air. "Somehow Millie figured out it attacks anything in motion. If you ever see another one, don't move."Rebecca nodded her head. "Okay..." She looked at the scorpio quietly and then shuddered. "How about we pack up and get out of here?"As they were dressing, Rebecca forced herself to examine the corpse..