I don't know. Most of the things we do at these times are rather illogical though we do them all the same.I remember how she believed in telling me sh...e loved me, often. Suddenly she would catch my hand in the middle of a conversation and say 'I love you' in a warm tone. I always grinned when she said that, but now I realized how it subconsciously mattered a lot. She believed in the theory of 'if you love someone show it' I have teased her a lot about it. But she always took it sportingly. Funny. She just held up her hand and dragged the shaman away. I saw him struggle then cry out in pain, then he ran off looking back once or twice. Then I watched as Laura went to talk to Ogna, the leader of the hunters in our village, he was the only warrior still standing, they talked for awhile before Laura called me over to her.Ogna looked down at me and knelt. "This woman has told me some amazing things. I want you to tell me if they are true."I nodded as he told me what Laura had told him. "Yes. ”I blinked at her in shock. “You mean- all those times I saw you- the stripping, the dancing, the-” My face flushed again, unable to bring myself to mention what else I’d seen. “You were doing them on purpose, so I’d see you?”“Yep,” she said, popping her ‘p’ and leaning in to kiss me again. “I was going to invite you in after that last time, but you were gone before I even got the door open.” I was speechless, my eyes wide, not sure if this was really happening or not. “So,” she said, tracing a. "Joyie, what happens if Doug finds out you left with Michael?" I'll just tell him Michael had been drinking and needed a ride." Joyie Ann Adkins! That's lying." Not really. Michael had been drinking." And you let him drive you home?" Well, yeah. He wasn't drunk."I closed my eyes and counted ten."What are you doing?" Joyie asked."Trying not to lose my temper." Oh." Oh." I guess maybe I shouldn't tell you the rest." There's more?" Yeah, but I'll wait 'til later to tell you. See ya' at school."She.