We returned as heroes, yet our losses made that the hollowest feeling. The elders had the children sleeping in the temple, thinking companionship migh...t assuage grief. Not for me, I just wanted to be alone.But, pouring a cup of mead that second night back, an unexpected visitor had me sighing. “I haven’t got the energy to niggle, Harmonia.”“Don’t want to argue anymore,” Harmonia said, helping herself, uninvited I might add, to the mead.She wouldn’t catch my eye but raised her cup towards me.. Waiting for me this time was something quite hard. It took a moment for it to register, and then I realized that this was a penis, or clit, or whatever the hell we were calling them that night. I started to withdraw my hand but Connie put hers on mine. She asked me if I thought she was any less attractive now that I knew her secret. I said not really. She then said that she found me attractive and she wanted to get to know me better. She said that girls like us had to stick together. By. .." I stopped realizing that I was defending what I didn't need to defend. "I never asked to be set up and frankly didn't need the interference." If you've only kissed three girls before," my mother said in her sympathetic voice, "maybe you did need a little help."My father, thankfully, intervened before I said something that I might well have regretted."This is a problem about maturity levels. Now," he looked at his wife, "how would you or your friends ever pick someone out that would be. .” She smiles, part frustrated and part – almost – proud.Another shot of her standing in the middle of the flat, shouting, “Is everyone ready? Aunty Bec will be here in 5 minutes and everyone needs to be ready!”The kids continue to do exactly what they want to do.Cut to outside the tower, with Stephanie waving her three walking age kids goodbye as they are led away by a slightly older woman. Stephanie waves, and shouts a thank you to the lady (who we presume is Aunty Bec).And then we’re back in.