I stripped off my shorts and threw them somewhere, didn’t know, didn’t care, on the way to the door. I had a feeling they weren’t going to be ne...ded once I got in there. Fortunately I was right. For the second time that day I was greeted with a lovely sight as I cleared the door to our bedroom. Both girls were kneeling on a pillow at the side of our bed, facing each other but with a conspicuous amount of space in between them. At the moment I entered they were leaning towards each other,. I figured that we had been too far east and would have gone sort of between it and the Caspian Sea if we had kept on the way we were going. It really made little difference to me which sea we found. I just wanted us to be on the edge of a major body of water and far enough south to miss the bad winters. Frankly, Chief Umgallah was beginning to show signs of advanced age, and I wanted us to get far enough south that he would not have to fight the harsh winters any longer.I had a selfish reason. She walked more silently than Collis until she caught him watching her feet to see how she did it, at which point she remembered to step on a twig now and again so as to assuage his pride."You still have not said why you are out in the woods so late," said Collis. "It is more than passing strange." I am going to see my grandmother," said Olida. "Food is scarce and she can no longer provide for herself. I'll share my breakfast with her. I must have left the house later than I thought. The sun. I knew you'd like this place." As he spoke, his voice turned husky. He looked into Ariel's eyes and saw the sparks of desire twinkling in her amber eyes, and he knew that she saw them in his eyes too. He led her back to the table and helped her sit, then he took his seat again just as the waiter came into the room with a bottle of wine for the two lovers.The waiter quietly poured the wine, then left the bottle in an ice bucket by the table. They sipped their wine, staring intently into each.