He certainly didn’t stand up to get it because I’d been on his lap the entire time. Dan lifted the bottle up and beyond my field of view. I heard ... little gurgle from the bottle and the slurp as he took a mouthful and then I heard the sounds of him swallowing echo through his chest.He kissed my forehead again.“Can you move your elbow, princess. It’s digging into my stomach and I had way too much to eat.”“Sorry.” I wriggled around and rearranged myself on his lap. “Is that better?”Dan’s only. "It will be nice all the same to cool down," I urged and reluctantly she agreed. I got her a towel and showed her to the change house near the pool. Now there are a gazillion bathrooms in 'The Cedars', but I had chosen that particular one for a specific reason - the shower is separated from the change room by a heavy door. Once she had gotten undressed and I heard her get the shower going, I snuck in and removed all her clothes, replacing them with some really nice stuff I had bought in town on. Njan avanodu chodikkumayirunnu avantethupole tholiyan enthu cheyyanam ennu. Appol avan paranju tharum ratriyil urangan kidakkumpol tholipidichu munnottum purakottum akkiyal mathi ennu.Angane Njan rathiyil moothu nilkkunna ente andiyil pidichu munnottum purakottum akkan thudangi. Ravile pedukkumpol vedana thonni. Penne randu divasam cheythilla munnam divasam penneyum cheythu ee thavana vedana thonniyilla. Pinne athu sthiramayi. Enikku pratyekichu oru feelingum thonniyilla. Angane kure divasangal. .. the woman blowing him. The dark red tendrils were being sucked out of the boy into the woman, cloaked in her own red shadow. Maybe it was too late for her.And yet ... all that glisters is not gold. The boy’s aura flashed bright, a lustre almost too bright ... a façade? Jean looked closer. Opened her eyes. There was a Chi dagger buried in the boy’s chest, it’s maroon poison seeping out and being drained by the woman’s mouth. But in exchange ... there was a flow of a more sinister darkness out.