Swiftcurrent Creek I long to be loyal

Bazi's face fell for an instant. She didn't quite understand the question. Did he tell me what he was going to do? Had that been the case, she would have had to add shame and disappointment in herself to the list of feelings that circled within her - for not intervening. Should it have made a difference? "Why do you ask?" she asked, weaving the tail end of that conversation into the new one about fish to keep things light. "My father taught me; maybe we can have a little lunch-time competition? First to three." She was famished, and three fat fish might just about touch the sides.