ORD. LAX. JFK. You’re standing at Gate 27B. You’ve already checked in for the ugly 12-hour flight to Europe or Africa or South America. Bags loaded, aisle seat assigned, nothing to do now but mill around the concourse.
Bingo. Eureka. That’s it! You dolt, you’ve forgotten to bring something to read. Idiot! You’ve just got time, maybe, to sprint to the gift shop, grab a few books from the rack. Next 12 miserable hours you’ll be caged alongside 500 other geeks–experiencing the romance of travel, the cattle car of modern flight.
Liz’s pleasant reverie is interrupted by our hero:
So Cain saves Elizabeth, and they make it ashore, where they do a lot of natural things, like play with dolphins, eat plants, chase animals around the forest. Cain is always saying stuff like “This one hears you. Do you always talk so loud?” and “It is good that you hunger. Food and rest will make you strong.”
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“His hand spanned her hip as he shifted his weight to press full-length against her.
Yeah, but Elizabeth backs off, not yet ready for the, ta-da, Lovestorm to come. Instead she nags, she whines, she wheedles, she gets Cain to take her to Jamestown. Wouldn’t you know, once in Jamestown Liz scores a ship home, only to find that Cain has been captured and will be transported to England as a heathen-slave on the very same ship!
