They lay on the beach together. Tigernan kissed her softly and then it turned quick and hungry. Grace responded with her own hungry need and when his hand slipped between her thighs she let out a moan of heated passion. He lay atop of her now and kissed her harder.

A sudden wave crashed over the two of them, and Tigernan pulled away, gasping for air. Grania watched as the next tide swept him out to sea. Her damp skin lye there paralyzed, unable to offer him help. She watched as his face sunk below the surface of the scrotum tightening waves, drowning her beloved.

Then she awoke in a beaded sweat. Immediatly sitting up in her bed, sheleaned over the side to puke.

Evelen came into her room without knocking, as usual. grania allowed it so, she kept nothing from her.

"Ms O'Malley, you be okay?" She asked as she sopped up the regergitation with an old rag.

Grace shook her head yes and lay it back on her pillow.