"I'm scared," Kaylee said, startling him enough that his eyes left her body and he gazed at her face. "I'm scared," she said again. "And it's pissing ...me off. I've never been a whiny girl who needs a man to get her out of trouble before. I can't believe I'm acting the way I am now. But just the thought of going back to that bedroom and climbing into that bed has me almost frozen with fear." It's good to be mad, Kaylee. And it's good to be afraid." He reached out and snagged a lock of her hair. The two dragged me down a hall way of bright light, and I tried my bestto escape them. I did manage at one point to get a leg free and kickedthe other still holding me and managed to break my other leg free.I guess this angered them, as they both managed to grab me, just as I hadrolled over to gain my footing, and be hit with something in the back ofmy head. The pain was extreme, and I went blank.I don't think I was out very long from this last blackout, because assoon as I came to, I found. "Shit hot" I exclaimed, "let's go checkit out". She nodded approvingly as she picked up her bike and started down the slopeme following close behind. We stashed our bikes out of view near the base of the bridgeand walked across the rocks to the water's edge. I knelt down and felt the water with myfingertips, it was cool, almost cold, and I said, "I'm gonna get my feet wet and cool down some, you game?" "Sure, I'm game for whatever works" was her reply. So we both satdown and pulled our. Induin and Liaren were there also, their natural light added to by the babes growing in their bellies; Aran’s babes. Smythe had never heard of a per’Elda arohim - or any other non-Human arohim. Was it a new thing? Or something old come again? Much closer, Solovir’s aura was different again; somehow bright but murky all at once, like looking at the surface of a clear pond that had just had mud stirred up from the bottom, swirling and eddying and clouding the view. The feeling of it still.