She surprised me all right. “I touched myself,” she said, looking me straight in the eye, like she had said something completely normal, but knowi...ng full well that she hadn’t. Even now, I still don’t know what I was going to say when she said that, but it didn’t matter, because my throat got so thick and dry in an instant, that all that came out was a kind of gasping, “Uhhhkllthh,” sound. “Well, girls have feelings,” she said, looking down, modestly. I was still too stunned to. . It dawned upon him that her effect on him was as if he’d been dipped in the River Lethe and was forgetting the pain of the previous two occasions when she’d let him down. It awoke a strong emotion he could not name, pulling him back from making any further progress in their relationship. It was as if there was a quiet but insistent voice in his head telling him she was not the woman for him.What he did know for certain was that if she were to move in as a trial, she would never move out. He was going to take the rear, and he told all the drovers to pace the animals, keeping them to a steady pace which wouldn't tire them. Zithrusa set the walking pace for the people, a steady pace that was a little bit slower than the animals.John didn't think all the horses would make it, he couldn't afford to water them, so they would either make it or not. He removed all of their saddles and bridles, leaving the four saddles in the palanquin and packing the bridles in the loads carried by the. "No, and I don't have my energy shield anymore, either. I can create a shield by grabbing energy if there is any nearby, but mostly I'll have to rely on mental agility and teleportation from now on. That's one thing I miss. I could out-power anybody. Now, I'm no stronger than any of the others."She sat down at the table and started to pick at a stale chunk of bread and sighed, "I'm human, now – just another typical vamp girl – just like Mom."Mac saw a gleam in her eye and realized that his.