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I mean, we don__ have to worry about it until winter, anyway,_ she said. __ was just wondering if you felt cured.__ didn__ know what to tell her. I didn__ feel cured. I felt like what Cole said __lmost cured. A war survivor with a phantom limb. I still felt that wolf that I__ been: living in my cells, sleeping uneasily, waiting to be coaxed out by weather or a rush of adrenaline or a needle in my veins. I didn__ know if that was real or suggested. I didn__ know if one day I would feel secure in my skin, taking my human body for granted.__ou look cured,_ Grace said. Just her face was visible at the end of the shower curtain, looking in at me. She grinned and I yelled. Grace reached in just far enough to shut off the tap.____ afraid,_ she said, whipping the shower curtain open all the way and presenting me with my towel, __his is the sort of thing you__l have to put up with in your old age._ I stood there, dripping, feeling utterly ridiculous, Grace standing opposite, smiling with her challenge. There was nothing for it but to get over the awkwardness. Instead of taking the towel, I took her chin with my wet fingers and kissed her. Water from my hair ran down my cheeks and onto our lips. I was getting her shirt all wet, but she didn__ seem to mind. A lifetime of this seemed rather appealing. I said gallantly, __hat better be a promise.