“This way,” she said and walked along the hedge side. I followed, noticing that strands of ivy trailed down thinly over the hedging, but gradually...thickened until little of the hedge could be detected. It was good to walk behind Connie just watching the twitching of those buttocks.She soon stopped, and putting down her basket, she took a key from her skirt pocket. Pulling the curtain of ivy to one side, she nodded her head for me to part it in the other direction. I gasped when I found a wooden. Pointing to a kid kicking a can along the sidewalk, Donny said, “We’re fifty feet from him and can’t hear the racket he’s making. The air is dead here.”Looking down at the kid, Rose said, “I don’t like it here.”Noticing a little activity by the strip joint, Donny sat up and said, “What’s this? Someone has pulled into the side parking lot.”“It’s a little early for someone to be there from what Dan and Joe were saying,” Rose said.They watched the activity below. A middle-aged man, sporting gang. She wore cowries, beads and a long piece of printed cloth wrapped around her waist. Her semi-nudity should have been shocking, where else would one encounter a woman of her advanced age naked from waist up? Her breasts were flattened and empty and seemed to blend in with the rest of her. Maybe this was why no-one felt awkward or stared at her chest? Or maybe we all recognised that this was our way. Before Christianity and modesty were forced on us, this was our way. She would sit grandly on a. Keslin's clothes... I couldn't help feeling frightened for Aaron, too."Well," I said quietly. "Mr. Keslin looked okay, right? I mean, maybe..." I trailed off, not even sure what to say. I shouldn't even be thinking about the Keslins, I decided. Eddie was in this hospital. And he was hurt. And I hadn't felt so helpless since I'd watched my mom wither away right in front of me.I felt hands on my shoulders and looked back at Seth, who'd walked around the couch to stand behind me, looking both.