Come morning, he was urged at breakfast to go hunting for meat and hides, along with two of the young men, so they could haul back his kills. His best...target was an auroch, if he could find one available to take out.No such luck. All he could find was the small deer-like creatures, but he picked off five of these at a distance and his assistants gutted them and carried them back.John browsed further, but something seemed to have scared off most of the prey animals. He wondered what, thinking. The lovely young child smiled, suddenly free, and she stretched out and thought that later, when things had calmed down, she and Mother could have a real heart-to-heart talk privately and openly. And she would tell her mother all about how she had lost her virginity today and wasn't sorry about it, any more than she was sorry that Clyde and her mother had been watching her and doing it at the same time. It was exciting thinking about that... about the way David Preston had split her little. The house was still, silent, deserted. I felt like a ghost drifting through the living room. That line from that Christmas poem popped into my head, you know the one: “all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”In the kitchen I poured myself a glass of water and leant against the sink while I sipped at it. My mind went back to last evening. Everything seemed so fractured, so unreal. Most of it felt like a dream, but I was pretty sure I’d been awake – well sort of. Natasha soon returned with 3 big glasses of vodka/orange combination and I immediately thought that if I drink it would be like liquid Viagra but it will at least give the girls a good boost.We all had a drink in our hands and Natasha stood next to Olga looking down at me, “We toast friendship” she said proudly and we all clinked glasses and took a big gulp, OMG I think the juice was a bit strong as I felt the tingles straight away and knew it was probably having a similar effect on the girls,.