I could see red embers glowing in the pitch black. A thunderstorm rumbled in the distance, the flashes of lightning illuminating the sky. I threw a fe... logs on the smoldering coals. The light of a young fire brightened our sandbar. I could see Sherie digging in her bag for some clean clothes. ”You want to get your bath first,” she called, ”Or me?”I looked up at the approaching storm and said, ”We better hurry and get one now.”Sherie grinned and wasted no time stripping. Her body bathed in the. I'm just a child," she finished, morosely.Diana laid a soothing hand on Selina's shoulder. "Adulthood will come, and much more quickly than you realize, genius or not. But I do sympathize with your problem." Then changing the subject. "I'm sure there must be an Escalade or two parked outside. I'll make sure you get back safely."Selina just laughed at her as she stepped through the hatch, saying, "I'm there now," and with a "pop" of displaced air, teleported to her suite."Forgot about that,". “Then we had the power cut so there was no way I was carrying an unconscious woman around a very dark house.”“Quite right,” said Wendy giving Jill what I can only call ‘a look’.“Even so, you could have stayed with her,” Jill went on ignoring the warning signs.“Dunno, I’d have left you here if you’d passed out too,” Neville interjected with a grin. “As it was I went up and left you partying because I was dropping off myself.”I could tell Jill wasn’t too happy, but Neville had quite taken the. Perhaps it would take a bit longer. I had to cough again. I had to work on it and get the proper cough reflex. Cough once. Cough twice and squeeze in an extra cough. That got the phlegm going and soon it was like a bucketful of frogs in my throat. I couldn’t read anymore with the bus jolting me about anyway, so I practiced some more coughing. They had mapped out where I was meant to go, an idiots guide, but some idiots got on the wrong bus regardless and had to come back into .