Preparation for Departure
After that Amarantia had nothing to do with April. Wyre Eumenides, on the other hand, continued to find their cousin fascinating. She loved to try on April’s miniskirts and skintight jeans and lacy dresses. When Wyre Eumenides dressed up in them she looked like someone completely different, and she liked what she saw.
One night, when thunder was rolling across the sky, Wyre Eumenides looked out the window to spy April and John playing strip poker in the garden, laughing and tossing off shirts and shoes. Not even the rain stopped them. April certainly didn’t seem John’s type, yet they were thick as thieves. Those two instinctively knew how to have fun, something at which Wyre Eumenides and Amarantia were both painfully inept.
There came a hot morning when John
