" I leaned back, folding my arms under Michel's suit coat as it hung over my shoulders.He looked at me then."And the bodies, they'll be making casts o...f the bites, examining the teeth," I stared at him. "We don't need this." And so what would you do, Ellen? Hmmm? Would you kill them?" He dipped his finger in his wine, and then put it to his closed lips, moistening them."I just want to find out why," I shrugged."You already know why," he tilted his head. "No, you want something else, what is it?". It has been a memorable trip for my students, so I am making some changes. You and they can have unprotected intercourse after all girls have your family’s secret sauce pushed into their uteruses. We know it has never failed to prevent pregnancy. I don’t trust anything any boy says about pulling out or girls saying they are safe right now. It doesn’t matter anyway.”Once the high school kids used the bathroom, took any meds they might need, and returned, I said, “We have something to discuss,. Delaney said quietly, ‘Stay calm Lucy and listen to me. You don’t have to tell me everything you know during the next three days. Just take it slowly and concentrate on telling me the things I need to know and do to perform credibly for Cassandra. She needs us to get this done competently and professionally.’ ‘God you are a cool customer Delaney. Perhaps there is some hope for you.’ ‘Is it a boy or girl?’ Lucy looked at Delaney blankly. ‘The baby, do you know if it’s a boy or girl?’ ‘Omigod you. She was single, as her last boyfriend had messed her around. I would never and will never understand why.She lived 200 miles away from me, near the coast. Close enough to smell the salt in the air she had said. As we talked, she told me she enjoyed walking on the beach. We discussed that she liked indie music and in particular Roslyn, by Bon Iver and St Vincent. In her words, it gave her goose bumps. I suggested she listen to One Last Night by Vaults. That gets close to giving me goose bumps.I.
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