Or Wawi spoke to me." The Black Snake?" Indeed." And?" Wawi seemed surprised. I was to be met in a few days at Lake Mungo."Rachel giggled. "I guess yo... didn't let Wawi know about our route change." I suppose I neglected that. Hungry?" And dirty." We'll drive back to Cobar, find a place to have a real breakfast, and you can wash in the ladies'. I'm hoping for chops and eggs and brownie." And a cuppa. More than one."I gathered our stuff and we walked to the car and drove back to Cobar. There was. "Spoilsport."We trooped into a beachside café where we all enjoyed an ice cold milkshake, mum and Shannon sat together, Shannon with a hand between mum's thighs. "You're wet, you slut," she laughed, and mum blushed looking at the bulge in Colin's shorts."It's the weather," she protested, but parted her legs discreetly and sat there with a dreamy kind of smile on her face."You need a shave, Sarah." Are you offering?" Mmm, yes please." Well, that's this afternoon taken care of," mum laughed, and. I looked around. Couldn't see Claire or Jo."I just want to put things right between us," Kat assured me.She took me outside, led me across the gardens to the decorated sprucesand ferns. A secret forest, gorgeous in the starlight. We lost ourselvesthere, as we had years ago when all this began..........FIVEI was on a beach. Why was I on a beach? I could feel waves lapping at myankles......What was I doing on a beach?My eyes hadn't opened yet, but I heard my voice, and I wasn't eventalking.I. “Carl! This is beautiful! How much does this cost?” asked a wide-eyed Marilyn.“For you, nothing!”“Carl, I’m serious!”“Well, I’ll take it out in trade,” I replied, waggling my eyebrows lewdly.“Carl!”“Don’t worry. It’s already covered.”“How?”“Okay, I’ll tell you, but you can’t tell your folks. Tell them I saved the money up, okay?”Marilyn gave me a skeptical look. I knew she didn’t tell her folks everything, but she didn’t like it all that much either. “Don’t tell them what?”“Well, you know we.