J’avais l’impression d’être un adolescent qui venait d’embrasser une fille pour la première fois. Sans même y prêter attention j’avais f...rmé les yeux quelques instants. En les ouvrant à nouveau, je vis son visage s’approcher à nouveau. Le souffle de ses narines était si proche qu’il chatouillait les miennes. Je me sentais totalement stupide et soumis à cette femme pourtant si jeune. Elle me parlait d’expérience… mais c’était elle qui, malgré sa timidité, manifestait une assurance troublante.Et. The three of us left the boy with his charge and headed back toward the center of camp. Things had been going on while we were gone.Apparently there was some sort of pecking order I wasn't aware of or some plan I didn't know, but spaces were being marked out for the placement of huts and semi-permanent fire circles. Caloe showed Shaeta where we would be as soon as we walked up and she gave Katia some instructions about things to do in preparation for their hut. Most of the men were gone again,. " He paused. "You always keep the best parts of these bids for your- self," but he was smiling as he said that. I smiled back at him. "That's my real pay for running the business, and tending to all the paperwork. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. What are we going to do about John?" Roger turned dead-serious. "I don't know. Would you prosecute?" "Well, to some extent I have the same problem as Janice: where's the evidence? You rescued me, of course, but all of the paraphernalia here is. That night mom came into my room, handing me a nightgown, then sat onthe bed watching while I slipped it over my head, used the bath andreturned."Come sit next to me," mom said as she patted the bed next to her. "Iknow," she told me, "that you like dressing as a girl, that's obvious,but all of the other boys will know, if they don't already, that we havea girl staying here, plus, they have not seen you in a while, so I hadto find a way to let you be more like a girl, just to keep them.