Shy Fox. "She sees what she wants to see,
imagines what she desires to happen. You are no less a woman than you
were before. You do not share her sickness. You have nothing to be
ashamed of.
27 Come. I will take you to my room for awhile, then I must go and find
your mate. This must be dealt with, and quickly! A woman cannot be
driven out of her own house."
28 A few hours later Shy Fox found Red Cat in an ale house. He was
pretty drunk. Shy Fox pulled him aside, shook him, and spoke in his
ear. "You've got to come home immediately, your first mate came into
the bathroom after Thorn Blossom was taking a bath and tried to be a
man to her. She's at my house now, thinking she did something wrong.
Your first mate is a lover of women."
29 Red Cat looked at him, put his hand on his shoulder, and shook his
head. "She did WHAT?" he groaned, "She's WHAT?"
30 When Shy Fox started to speak again, Red Cat stopped him, and
motioned him to follow. Red Cat went outside, stuck his head
in an ox
trough. The cold water seemed to bring back his senses. "Now tell me
again," he insisted, "though I don't think I want to hear what you
said."
31 Shy Fox told him the whole story. "No wonder I can't keep a maid!"
groaned Red Cat. "And that's what that girl meant awhile
back, when she said she didn't know who the man was in my house! Well,
I'm not going to have this! When we were first mated, that woman was
fun. We did a lot of crazy things. But then she started to change,
stopped paying attention to me, began to spend a lot of time with her
lady friends. That's when I started going to the houses of pleasure.
32 Then, I met Thorn Blossom, and she decided