Nerith was still trying to manage her dream. The dream had done its work and the conversation after it had done its work, and the result was a version of Nerith that was considerably more complicated about Rex than the version that had been sitting alone at the waterfall two hours ago, which was precisely the version he needed her to be before they went into the canyon.
"I have to try and trust Rex for now...'
Nerith looked at her body, especially her private parts. 'It looks like that he didn't do anything to me when I was asleep... but still that dream...'
'I can still feel itchy in some parts of my body...' Nerith shook her head. 'No... stop... it's just a dream...'
'Rex is someone that I can trust still... I just need to prove it now...'
The bypass joined the main road about thirty minutes later on the far side of the ridge. The road widened, the stone walls fell back, and the trees opened up on either side into the kind of terrain that told you a settlement was close.
