I thought of Jason from time to time, not without a sense of guilt. Although we had never spoken about our encounters as anything more than no-strings... sex, I knew it wasn’t that way for him, at least toward the end, and I wouldn’t have blamed him for feeling a little used.It was a big relief, then, when I got a long email from him about two months after school started. It turns out that the neighbor who’d seen us kissing the last time I saw Jason had knocked on his door a couple of nights later. Oh well, she had a long day ahead of her. She was moving on to a new area, she had already picked this zone clean for the group. The current tunnel she was in was the size of a regular hallway, but up ahead, she could see it branching off into half a dozen smaller crawl space tunnels. This could be dangerous, better to avoid it, but if everyone thought that way, then that meant there were still things to find.She took out her knife and held it between her teeth, then crawled into one of the. They knew it wouldn’t matter, as soon the new wife would join the household and soon after, a new child to raise. But for now, all was as it should be as far as they were concerned.Lorna was on guard this morning. She was expecting trouble, she just wasn’t sure when and what sort. As Lann was about to head out to check the beef cattle, the expected trouble arrived in the form of an angry mother about the third hour after sunrise. The father, Grahm fuming in poorly concealed anger and Kaara. " He was about to say something, Patricia cut him off as a thought popped into her head, "I know of a place we can have drinks, where we won't attract attention and be left alone."She squeezed my thigh under the table and announced she was going to the bathroom. I took her hint and rose to join her. Mike looked like he was going to say something smart-mouthed, but decided against it.In the restroom, Patricia knelt to look for legs underneath the stall, a habit we both had ingrained in our.