A moment later I saw her grimace slightly and I suspected her memory was being scanned. To my delight, the harps were gone like the wind, but so was the little stream of crystal clear water. But we didn’t even think too much about it lest the entity that was putting everything at our fingertips might come up with such an idea. So the red dust and boulders around me began to turn into what you see… I took Pauline, or Eve, gently by the elbow and explained:
“If what I suspect is true we shall live nine hundred years exactly as long as Adam and Eve lived. We didn’t have much to do so we ate and had sex almost continuously. But how would the creator of my little Eden react if he realized I was lying to him? I thought to myself, and then I heard the whisper again, as if it had been carried by the wind:
“Bae, bae.”
“Yes I want a bath, I said before I realized what I was doing. She cleared it of leaves, then patted a stretch of beach with finer sand with
