Julie got her on her feet and tried to lead her to the tub. Like a recalcitrant child, Arlene resisted, still hunched over trying to hide herself with...her hands and arms.Fervently hoping that it was not a step too far, Julie gave her a hand-stinging slap on her ass. The reflex worked and Arlene straightened up and reached back to protect her wounded bottom."That's better, Honey," Julie said, trying to assume the role of a parent with a young child. "You need to get in the tub and wash the pee. Behave yourselves,” Lucy teased. She could feel Greg’s pleading eyes on her ass and legs as she turned and walked away.In her bedroom, Lucy dropped the towel on her bed and brushed her hair again, standing naked in front of her dresser mirror. She glanced at the clock that read 3:10. Going back to her introduction to sexual things by an older cousin, Lucy enjoyed being naked and thought often about how boys tried to see her boobs or up her skirt. She liked to tease guys when she had the chance,. You have been given a gift that we have not bestowed to one of yourkind for over two thousand years. You have become one of us. Skyler isno more, yet the woman that the islanders expect to emerge today, doesnot exist either. You are now, Skye, Siren goddess of the winds."I don't know why but I began to quietly weep for my loss. I did not knowat the time, what I had gained in the bargain."That is all right daughter, weep for the loss of poor Skyler, but whenyou are done, celebrate the birth of. ‘Well, no more so than the rest of us. But he’s on his own. He doesn’t have anyone to look after him. So I think he’ll appreciate a soul cake or two. Oh, and don’t forget to sing him a hymn.’ ‘A hymn?’ ‘Well, a song anyway. I know … perhaps you could sing him Baa Baa Black Sheep.’ And she laughed. I wasn’t sure why at the time. Shadrach Smith’s wife had been killed in an accident while he was away fighting in France — which, presumably, was why Mother had said that he had no one to look after.