In fact, she’ll be looking for wedding bells. Be warned.”She looked at me quizzically. Sighed. Frowned. “Steve?”“Uh huh?”“About calling ...n Penrith. Um. Could we ... I mean ... maybe ... ride Oscar and leave the van here? Have an extra night here?”Perhaps surprisingly, I hadn’t thought of that. I’d been fixated on moving on from where we were. “That’d work,” I said. “Spend longer there, if you like, or spend time in Keswick. If the weather is fit, of course. It’s not much fun riding a motorbike. The very image of these brightly dressed boys training with grim Neo Vikings was very funny to me.Perhaps things had changed on Nilfeheim while I was gone, but I didn’t bet on it.He went on. “Are you a water polo fan? Is that why you go to Nilfeheim?”“Sorry I don’t even know what Water polo is. I am from Nilfeheim. I am going home.”He stared at me as if I told him I didn’t know what walking is.“A water polo team consists of seven players. We play ball in a pool. There are goals and we try to. He reached out and fingered her labia. She shuddered with unwilling pleasure. Aah, I see you like that, do you? Heres something thatll feel even better. He rubbed his finger in circles around her clit, and she twitched with glee, although her body was shouting that it was wrong. Well, every part of her body but her cunt. Slowly, he reached his finger closer and closer to her entrance. She began to pulsate against his touch, sliding back and forth onto his finger, eyes closed. Here you go…. Here, I wasn't constantly reminded of the suffering my deeds had caused.The world had suffered the last seventeen years, though things were beginning to stabilize into the new normality. Between my parents stifling technological growth and knowledge for forty years and the wars that consumed the world, mankind had backslid. At least in the Americas. I was told there were still working power plants in Europe around Rome.After rescuing Rex and Reina from those bigoted, misguided Christians, I.