”I went to the door of Coach Bill’s office and peeked in. He was sitting at his desk looking at a magazine of some kind. When he became aware that... someone was at the door he quickly closed the magazine and stuffed it into a drawer. He told me to come in, and when I did, he once more had me stand in front of him, asking me if I’d like to see what he was looking at. I said I would, and he opened the drawer and pulled out a magazine with pictures of naked men, all with hard-ons, and some of them. Davis, if you promise to let me satisfy you, with or without that condom. I will direct you to the place in the park; it all happens. I am doing a fellow student who is in on the action with your wife, and he is a braggart."Tammy's parents called her as they were leaving. She pulled her top up, winked at me, and said, "Let me know, Mr. Davis, or can I call you a lover or Joe?" Tammy, if all you are telling me is true, either would be fine."I watched her sway her ass out of the kitchen. I. I told her I had stronger orgasms when physical pain was involved, and she told me that the reason for this was that sensations of pain and pleasure activate the same neural mechanisms in the brain. She went on to tell me a lot of scientific stuff, but basically it boils down to the fact that pain, for some people, can create the same high that athletes experience when they push their bodies to the limit. When I told her I still felt like a freak, she admitted that she liked her husband to. I do not wish to be leader. I ask Kitik if he wishes to be leader.“Yes,” he says. “If we were with the pod I would be leader after Altauk. And I wish this.”“Why would you be leader?” I ask.“I am stronger,” he tells me. “Mother”—he means my mother, who takes him together with me—”helps to make me so. You help to make me so. And this body that I have, it will not let me leap so high as you but in other ways it is more powerful than others’ bodies.”I do not need to ask how he knows this. I see him.