I came here wanting to belong.”
“Poor Charles,” she said. Sex vedio “It’s just as bad as you think,” said Celia, talking in a loud whisper. Don’t be afraid.”
I felt the wind at my back and the loose dirt giving way under my heels. What higher power could I invoke? I think I went mad then, for though I meant to run to the orchard and find my grandparents (in the meritless hope that they would disconfirm what I was just told) I instead ran the opposite way, a frantic, single-minded dash toward the cliffs and some phantom notion of freedom and escape. “It’s a family tradition of sorts,” he said. We’re sorry. I expected to wake up any moment, but I did not, though sometimes I wonder if perhaps everything since has been the dream, one long, hazy, somnambulistic escapade from the waking world. He looked up once, nodded, then did an actual double take upon seeing me. Once they got me talking they asked if I had any family, anyone that I wanted to contact? And what were they doing now, what was this thing they were bringing forth, this strange idol twice as tall as a man, ancient and fetid in appearance, hammered together from the bones and antlers of animals?
