I'm 16- three years older than you, but I feel like you're agrown-up cause you look and act one like one. My dad said he thought youwere a teacher whe...n he met you."Katie laughed. "Yeah, that was pretty funny." I'm serious Katie. You're the first girl that smokes that my parentsever let me go out with. I liked a few girls that smoked but I couldnever ask them out because I knew my parents wouldn't go for it. They'reusually real weird about things like that. They're always thinking thatpeople are. I struggled out of the deep sofa and offered her my hand, pulling her up. Standing she kissed me again, her blouse open. She is taller than I by half a head and I had to bend my neck back a little before she pulled away and, still holding my hand, led me to my bedroom. Once there she fumbled with the side zip of my dress, worked it out eventually and pulled it over my head. She tapped my plain cotton knickers. ‘Very Roedean,’ she smiled and I thought how that was the second time she had echoed. I charged after, the Hunger scuttling beside me. Behind us, the Colony chittered and buzzed with excitement. In moments, I leaped over the rubble of the door and entered Krab's temple.An old man stood waiting for us. He wore leather pants, scarred and burned, stained by hours upon hours of labor. Despite his age, the man's body was all hard muscle, sinew cording across his powerful build. He wore gauntlets made of clear crystal, of diamonds, that sparkled with a fiery brilliance. They flexed. You have stopped all pretense of working and are just watching us. I laughingly dance and brush my body against hers feeling that this is what she wants and I am getting bolder with each moment. I slowly remove her blouse with her token protest and I tell her to relax, we will just have some fun. Dancing by the paint palate I stick my finger into the purple paint and start to finger paint on Nina's wonderfully large and round breasts. She is mesmerized and watches my fingers.