I strip off my tank and panties and step in to the shower. Just as I’m leaning my head back and soaking my hair it occurs to me that I didn’t get ... towel. I slide the door open to check the towel rack, but there’s nothing there. Damn. “Honey!” I call out. “I forgot to grab a towel, will you bring me one?” Your smiling face appears next to the open shower door. “I’d be happy to, babe, but it’s gonna cost you.” I roll my eyes. I can’t possibly bargain with you at 5:30 in the morning. “What?” I. I realized that I had been unfair. But this only made me feel worse.“Thank you,” I said, “for saving my life.”“Thank you,” she said, “for saving ours.”I could never again be so close to the wise-woman, but my bitterness toward her faded. She was a peasant, not a warrior. She was not a coward. Her plan had failed and I was the sacrifice. If we had run away instead… but I had saved the whole village. It was a knot I could not untie. I returned to my home, and my spinning and weaving. I made. .. and then do whatever we have to do for dinner, then be together again, all night..."I pondered that just perhaps this young angel was reading my thoughts. "Are you reading my mind, Haley?" I don't have to," she smiled. "If you love me the way I love you, that's what you want. 'Cuz that's what I want..." her lips met mine, soft, gently opening, a tongue brushing my lips, then slipping between them to meet my own tongue. "Just a few more minutes, okay?"Yes, little one..."Finally we both. And that might account for what I’ve sensed when watching you.’ I said, semi-jokingly, expecting her to either ignore, or laugh at the flirtatious innuendo. But she did neither, I saw her face flush a little then she replied by saying. ‘You mean you’ve sensed something, well, something sexy about it Robert?’ she asked in a much quieter voice. It was as though she’d read my mind and for a moment or two I didn’t know how to answer. ‘Well perhaps I would have used the word erotic, but I suppose.