As the evening had progressed with Shelia I started to get a sense of how she felt but it wasn't the clear signal I was use to getting. I was also sca...ed because Shelia soared with the socially elite eagles while I scratched with the more fun chickens.I liked Shelia a whole lot, but I wasn't prepared to sacrifice my friendships over her. Nor was I comfortable taking her out of her element, as it might cause her problems with her friends and family. Her mother was already looking at me as if. Things would be much more difficult if you had ‘ported usss to, sssay, El-Abessin.” Chassari dragged her hurting body back to the mouth of the alley and onto the street. A moment later, there were quick steps coming closer. A wiry man, his skin a peculiar shade of bronze and with a long braid coming down his muscular back, stopped his hand-drawn carriage right next to her. The two-wheeled vehicle was basically a wide bench with a fabric roof bolted to one axle.“Do you need transportation,. It's the other way around!" I wasn't thinking. So now what? I don't think we can swim back." We stay together. We save our energy. We stay awake. We look for a way out." You really think so?"What?" You think there's a way out?" You gotta think that, Yonson, or you just give up and die. People have survived a couple of days in the ocean." What, did you take lifesaving class or something?" Something like that."For a long time we held onto each other, just staying above water and letting the winds. Probably because everything was happeningso quickly, and because he hadn’t been expecting Abbyto say such nice things. Probably also because of howstunning Abby looked. He’d always thought she wasbeautiful, but today she looked especially sexy. She wore a black, form fitting shirt and a long, green,cotton skirt with a slit running up the left side. Herbrown, wavy hair was up. She’d slipped her feet out ofher black pumps when she’d folded her legs underherself to sit.