Chapter 43 Night Ceremony

• Whoever had remade the bed had put a bunch of white decorative pillows on it. Rosette crawled up and started to toss them off. Against the white linen, she looked filthy. Her knees were grass-stained. The rest of her was scuffed and dirty. She shuddered at how bad her hair must look, probably full of twigs and knotted.
• "Okay, bed in a minute," she told Kyle, heading off the other side for the bathroom, "I'm showering."
• "I like the way you smell as you are now," he said, moving to stand in her way. "I don't want you to bathe."