.. well, really her shalwar. But the image stayed in my head all the way to when I fell asleep.The next morning before going to irrigate the fields, I... found her doling out food to the animals. It was still early morning and the sun hadn’t come up yet, but the dusk had enough light to show things not only clearly but in their natural colours. I saw my aunt from behind and pictured her from the night before. My mind made a note of her profile and I had to admit that it was a pleasing. After it had cooled down, Mavis tested it for taste. She gave it the thumbs up sign. Carol tried it. "Mmm, just as you said, salty onions." She swallowed. "And, man, it tingles the throat!" Without taking more, she swallowed again. "And it sure stays with you back there, I can still feel it stinging." Yeah, and that can last for hours and hours, if you don't drink anything. I like the effect, it reminds me of my suck job, and one can wank to it, too."Carol offered the jar to Mavis, who said,. Their minds are cool and deep and very focused on the trees and the space between them. They are the masters of a very finite infinity.I came to Redwood because it was where Grandpa Andy first mastered the art of shape-shifting. It was here, running through the woods at the edge of this nameless lake, as I was running it now, that Grandpa Andy first learned to take the Light and the Dream Stuff and use it to remake himself. I had done that, was doing it as I ran. Easy shapes in rapid. I remember thinking, "Wow, they are so in love!"It never occurred to me that every marriage was different. That not every marriage was a storybook romance, and that in many ways, my parents probably had a more functional marriage. And just because they didn't suck face in front of me didn't mean they didn't touch one another or value one another behind closed doors. They wouldn't dare make out in front me, let alone my friends! It was inappropriate, and I was forced to admit that when I was.