I watched as the people in camp headed upstream to help the returning hunters with the game they carried, I sat down and resumed my scanning of the ho...izon and of the two main danger areas. You never knew when an enemy or large predator might make an appearance. More than once, a predator stalked the returning hunters in the hope of stealing their kill. Most predators knew that challenging humans was a bad thing to do. But hunger drives us all to do things we would otherwise not do, and the. ’ ‘Ah yes mother, you caught me. As your reward, I shall tell you.’ Chia got up out of her seat and walked to a nearby window. She knew that she was just flustering her mother more, but she wouldn’t get what she wanted to know out of her by getting angry. ‘You know about that lake that I like to run off to, don’t you Mary?’ she began, turning to her mother. At her Marys small nod and curious look she continued. ‘Well you may not be able to understand it, you being you and all, but that lake. ‘What?’ ‘Well,’ she continued, ‘you haven’t gone over there in, like, a week. I know you Virginia. You…slept with him, and now it’s all weird and awkward.’ No, I slept with him, and it was amazing. It just wasn’t the plan. ‘Yeah, well, I didn’t want you to feel weird about hanging out over there,’ Virginia said, hoping Meredith was convinced. ‘You two are friends now.’ That’s why I did it with him in the first place. So you wouldn’t. ‘Honey, I don’t care,’ Meredith said. ‘You’re my best friend.. ‘Emma, do you go to school?’ ‘Yes, I am a sophomore at the city university, majoring in nursing.’ Excellent, she now goes beyond just answering my questions, using her intuition and a feeling via the link to offer additional information I want to know. ‘And where do you live,’ I continued. ‘I moved into an apartment a few months ago which I share with my two friends over there.’ ‘And why are you still a virgin?’ I asked abruptly changing the subject to see if I could throw her off stride..