CLAE DROPPED HER BLANKET,AND STILL WOBBLING A LITTLE WALKED TO THE ROCKS.
         
         TRACI FELL IN STEP WITH DAVID.SHE LOOKED AT HIS INTENSE EYES AND MUSCULAR
         
         FORM.
         
            “SHE SHOULDN’T BE DOING THIS.” HE MUTTERED.TRACI LAUGHED.
         
         “YOU DON’T KNOW CLAE.EVEN A CLOSE BRUSH WITH DEATH WON’T KEEP HER FROM

         DOING WHAT HER MIND’S SET ON.” DAVE NOTICED THE UNSTEADINESS IN HER VOICE.

         HE STOPPED AND GRABBED HER ARM.
         
            “WHAT’S WRONG WITH HER?” DAVE ASKED WISELY.TRACI LOWERED HER EYES,AND

         PURSED HER LIPS.
         
            “KEEP QUIET ABOUT THIS.CLAE HAS A SLIGHT PROBLEM WITH MUSCULAR CONTROL.
         
         IT CAUSES OTHER PROBLEMS AS WELL,BUT CLAE HAS NEVER LET IT GET THE BEST
         
         OF HER.AND I’VE KNOWN HER FOR NINE YEARS.SHE HAS TROUBLE WITH WAKING
         
         UP SOMETIMES IF SHE’S OVERLY EXHAUSTED,AND SHE GETS REALLY EMMOTIONAL AT
         
         CERTIAN TIMES.IT’S NATURAL.YESTERDAY I GUESS SHE DID TO MUCH.” TRACI
         
         SHRUGGED.THEY WALKED ON.TRACI STOOPED AND COLLECTED AN ARMLOAD OF FRONDS.
         
            “IS SHE OKAY THOUGH? I MEAN IS SHE IN ANY DANGER OF DYING?” DAVE’S VOICE

         CRACKED AND HE COVERED IT WITH A COUGH.TRACI LOOKED AT HIM FOR A MINUTE.

         MOST GUYS THAT WERE HER AGE WERE INSENSITIVE AND JERKS.
         
            “YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT HER DON’T YOU?” TRACI ASKED GENTLY.SHE GATHERED

         ANOTHER HANDFULL OF FRONDS.
         
            “LIKE SHE CARES.DRAKE THE BARBARIAN HAS HIS SIGHTS SET ON HER.I SWEAR

         THIS STRANDEDNESS MEANS SOME INTERESTING TIMES.I SWEAR IT.” THEY BOTH

         LAUGHED AND HEADED TO THE ROCKS.

         
         
         “DON’T ARGUE WITH ME DRAKE! I’M FINE.GIVE ME A BOOST.” CLAE SAID.DRAKE
         
         SHOOK HIS HEAD.