Thing. Would it follow them?And what was worse, part of me wanted to see if the figure would appear to me again. Part of me wondered what would happen...the next time I encountered it.In the end, I did...nothing. I cooked, I cleaned, I worked. Theo and I had a night of mediocre lovemaking and then I finished myself off in the shower while I tried to remember the scent of burning autumn leaves.That night Theo and I were watching a movie. It was a bizarre, arty horror piece...a black and white. Traveling across that lake took about two hours. It didn't seem that long, because each island had something interesting to display. It might be a large boulder, or a small bay, or a lone tree that had withstood the wind and rain for many years.We easily found the portage and skied across the next lake. When we arrived close to the area where I had fallen through, I took no chances. We skied close to shore and bypassed any areas that looked questionable. We made it safely past that area without. He wanted to find a girl he could fuck that night which was why he was going out with the boys. Though incest is taboo and frowned upon, it hadn’t stopped him from taking his sister Violet’s virginity a year ago. She was as eager to lose it as he was to take it and they had the odd alliance now and then since that time. No, tonight he was going to go out with his friends and find new fields to plough, so he left as his mom, dad and sister were still getting ready to go to their party. Robin. .. What?”Ikuno smiled but didn’t lift her head off his shoulder, “I’ll explain later, take me to bed.”Kal started walking again, “Sounds like there’s going to be a lot of that later, like how you ended up overloaded with magic.”Kal walked into the mouth of the cave, Ikuno snapped her fingers and a ball of light formed before them, leading the way into the darkness.Ikuno was thoughtful, “I have an idea about that...”“KAL! IKUNO! Are you alright!” came Perra’s voice, they could tell from her.