You," I mumble quietly. I watch as you throw your head back and drain your can into your mouth. Watching your lips on the steel makes me even hotter a...d I know I need to get to the creek real soon. I straighten up a bit and lean in even more, my lips soft against your cheek but searching for your lips. You turn your head and kiss me back. Your tongue slips into my mouth and I can taste rum... mmmm, yummy. My tongue starts to explore, too and I briefly wonder if you can taste rum on me as well.. Expect more attacks as they awaken. I also fear for the Sorral Plain. The people there have been through enough.”“Perhaps the ulunn and the Heralds will wipe one another out,” Elaina suggested, sounding half serious and half wishful. “And do us all a big favour.”“With the world as it is,” Amina began. “I am not surprised that the Alda’rendi have made themselves known to us. You must take care with them, Henley. Their goals may not align with our own.” With Aran present, the perpetual clouds. Unfortunately, I didn't have enoughmoney to buy anything more than that. All of my own money had been leftback in my bedroom, along with all of my clothes... and my dad with hisgun. Eventually I found a classroom which was unlocked and wentinside; sitting down in the teacher's chair since it was the mostcomfortable and could even lean back. However, comfort wasn't exactlymy most pressing issue, a fact of which I was extremely aware. I looked down at myself, at my changed body, seeing it. The first time it arose we had had quite a serious argument earlier in the day over family stuff. He didn’t want to visit my mother and, truth be told, neither did I. But as these things so often have a way of doing, the argument escalated into his dislike for my sisters and their husbands, the fact I sometimes gave them money, the comparison with his family and some quite deep-rooted issues over making allowances or concessions for someone you love. It got heated and became one of those that.