Men and women both. Strangest thing I ever seen, really. The men and women were all -natural-. Their clothes were torn off and scattered to the wind. ...They were frozen solid, to the last of them. The women were bent nude right over a log, or the big rock nearby. The men were splayed out naked on the ground."The freshly-oathed knight of the Night's Watch flicked his eyes questioningly to the third of their number, an old veteran of a hundred ragings, Gared. After a moment the old soldier answered. Thunderstorms aren’t forever.”Which was a truth. The roll cloud at the beginning was getting further behind us, the wind becoming steady, the seas quieting. I eased away from the course I’d chosen to ride through the storm, returning to something closer to the course we chose for our trip. Now it’s just rain and wind.“Binkabenjamanda,” Bink said. “I thought it was gonna be really bad.”“Just a squall line,” I stated. “If we’d’ve been under sail it would’ve been a scramble to get sails dowsed. She couldn’t even bank to make a slight turn.‘I should do her a favor, ‘ Béla realized, grinning as she squeezed her eyes shut and fiercely concentrated, intending to pass on the favor her brother had done when she had been in similar difficulty outside Father’s lab that first time she’d tried to fly.Mentally, she surrounded her sister with her own awareness and wrenched her out of normal space, then smiled as she heard the thin scream of terror her sister emitted into the sudden darkness. Béla. Hesitantly putting my feet inside, I felt more like a sixteen year old before a sleep-over than my real age of twenty years. I couldn’t keep my opinion to myself. “You’re crazy, Mistress.” “You’re welcome,” she answered with amusement. “Though you haven’t seen anything yet. How do you feel?” “A bit uncomfortable. The knickers are a bit tight, as is the bra.” “That’s good, but I wasn’t asking about that. Do you like the clothes?” My insecure, “Uhm, not really?” was answered with a giggle. “Let’s.