He was going to have to sit down with her, though if she actually listened to him, remained to be seen. It was several hours later when he felt the la...t of the watchers from the town leave him.Though he couldn't actually feel her, he knew she was out there. John figured that he was still to close too the town for her to show herself.More than a few hours later the sun was starting to set when John decided to bed down. The camp set up; John started to set him a place in the trees. Nothing too. You have walked by her lodge ten times a day, and now, she comes to your foundry to show you that she returns your interest." Fang was smarter than Hawk, and he thought of better ways to do things, much like his father, Two Bears. He had even less experience with girls than Arrow did, and wasn't yet sure that he wanted to change that."What should I do? Invite her to learn to shape points, or ask her to be my woman?" He hadn't been looking for anything other than advice on what to do. The two. “And what about the other guy?” I said.“He’s my beloved stepdaddy,” I could see she was bracing for the storm. But in point of fact there would be none. I was satisfied if what she said turned out to be a true thing.“Okay, then we can talk,” I said. She relaxed, visibly relaxed.“Daddy,” she squealed.“Selena, do not blame your mother. It was a very bad man that did what he did, and he’s gone now, forever gone,” I said. And my baby cried some more.“Okay, dad, okay, I understand. I do,” she. .. that something important and significant was missing. Sex was still good for me, always, but equally now inadequate in dozens of tiny small ways.We didn’t even dress again, leaving the hill, our hill, that morning. Our friends down the hill had kept silent vigil with us, holding small candles during the dark, as if they were witnessing something sacred and too holy to ever be spoken of thereafter. No one said a word, then or about this special night even many years afterwards and we walked.