Probably not I thought.Twenty minutes later we were holding hands and walking barefoot along the beach. I started to talk. About my brother and I. Abo...t our lives. About Caitlyn..."You were still a virgin at eighteen?" There was both a touch of disbelief and surprise in her voice. I welcomed being sidetracked. For the next twenty minutes I told my love of the sexual trials and tribulations of a teenage Dave Montgomery."So you had a crush on Caitlyn?" Maria asked when I finally got to my senior. .. yes.”“How many times have you fed on the kine?” she said.Kine? Oh right, humans.“Just once. It was a ... violent experience.”“You must be hungry then. And nervous.” A new smile graced her sharp lips.“Yes ... my Prince.” Embarrassing did not even begin to describe his predicament. He tried to keep his hands on the table in front of him, but he couldn’t help but run his fingertips along his buzzed hair again. He really was hungry.“Julias comes here. Women grow wet at the sound of his voice. He. ”“I realized that I was being silly, basically. You are ... who you are. My being jealous was just my being stupid. I think Idgrod is more than just a seer, with her visions. I heard what she said in the tent earlier, but I didn’t ... comprehend it until Serana and I were sitting here talking after you’d left. She didn’t say sister-wife, she said wives. So I’m going to presume that this woman who brought me to multiple releases with her wonderfully skilled tongue is going to be one of them,. “Let’s stash the bikes here and go for a swim,” he said.We rolled the bikes down the path for 10 yards or so and pushed them into a clump of bushes. The path led straight through the forest, which sloped down to the water on both sides, and after 10 minutes’ walking we came to the rocks at the seaward end.“This looks like a nice spot,” Nick said.That was a colossal understatement. The spot was gorgeous. The rocks we had seen from shore actually hid a small cove notched in the end of the spit..