14 | P a g e “Eris, wait! Where are you going? We haven’t even figured out where we’re staying for the night!” Eris stopped in her tracks when I called after her. This was the third time we’d had this exchange since we came to the Demon Continent. The first time, she got lost; the second, she got into a fight on a street corner. I wasn’t going to have a third incident. “Oh yeah! I’ll get lost again if we don’t decide on an inn first!” She bounded back to us, constantly glancing over her shoulder at the sea. Come to think of it, this was probably the first time she’d seen something like this. There were some rivers near Fittoa, and apparently Sauros took her there on his days off and let her play in the water. Sadly, I never went with them, so I had no idea how much she knew about bodies of water. “Can we swim?” I tilted my head at her words. “You want to swim in the harbor?” “I do!” I did want to see how sexy her body had gotten now that she was thirteen, but that desire was destined to remain unfulfilled. Namely because there was an important component missing from this equation. “You don’t have a swimsuit, do you?” I asked. “What the heck is a swimsuit? I don’t need one!” Her response was so shocking I couldn’t hide my confusion. What the heck is a swimsuit, I don’t need one, she said. So she meant to swim totally naked…? No, no way, that couldn’t be it. Most likely she meant to swim in her underwear. I pictured her clad in nothing but her underwear, water pouring over her. The damp fabric would cling to her body, and through the sheer material I would be able to