How could he live so afraid?I turned my head slowly, because I couldn't do anything else. I thought my touch might help him until you got back inside. I'd earned the right to order him around. I felt his breath on my face, before I opened my eyes.
You're right, Mary, in human form there's no contagion. I had enough trouble running my own life, I didn't want someone else's. So many choices, I bent over his ankles and licked along the round bone, tracing the skin with my tongue, in thick, wet, circles. Like you do humans? I said.
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