”“You’re a darling!”When Spring Break was nearly upon them, they decided to spend it together. It was neither a hard decision nor something th...y disagreed on. What was hard was breaking it to Mom.“Really, dear! I suppose Andy is staying down there, too.” She considered saying that she didn’t know. But that wouldn’t convince Mom who knew for certain that they’d slept together twice. She would have no illusions that they’d stopped.“Sure. You’d rather I went to Key West?” she asked. Traditionally,. Eve, then still Denis on a part-time basis, had no idea Paul was a transsexual, too; for that matter, neither did John in those days. Though Paul had made his decision before Eve, it was much longer taking place. Only after Eve and Cheryl rediscovered each other in grad school did the truth come out, and had led, in time, to John and Eve rediscovering each other.Even knowing the truth, much like Eve it was hard to look at the short, slender, mildly shaped brunette and think of her as the boy. At least we hurt him. Marduk, I mean." We did?" Sophie thought back for a moment. "He... you think we did that?" Yeah, when Gavin stabbed the first one with the knife — in the chest — Marduk started bleeding from the chest. Then in the face and in the head, two more wounds." Because he invested that power in his... whatever they were." Golems." Caerys pointed towards the book where it rested on the table. "I didn't know that before... there are golems and homunculi — homunculi are real people. " Sure, I c'n do that. Just give me another couple of hours to sleep thisoff."The captain grew angry then, and I won't repeat what he said, for I'mnot a foul-mouthed man, though I was a soldier for so long. I walkedfurther along toward the bow and looked out. The nearest land was muchtoo far to see.There were four other mercenaries on board, besides the sailors, some ofwhom could handle a sword well enough. Between the five of us we'dfought for three of the four factions in the war; I didn't.