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I stop running and giggle when I catch sight of Zie chasing me with a trouser tent.
“What?” He demands when I can’t stop laughing. Instead I point.
“Oh. Yeah.” He blushes and tries to look carefree, but I can tell he’s embarrassed. “It just happens.”
“Can’t you control it?” I wrinkle up my nose in distaste.
“No.” Oh. I’m sure if I had one I would be able to control it.
“Maybe you just need to practise,” I suggest. Then curiosity gets the better of me. “Does it hurt?”
“Sometimes,” he admits. I pull a face. Yuk that sucks. “But sometimes it feels good too.”
I really can’t imagine it feeling good.
“I think girls are better than boys,” I decide. We’ve argued over this for years. “I know you can pee standing up, and no matter how much you try to teach me I just can’t get the hang of it, but at least I don’t have to deal with that.” I wave my hand in the vague direction of his trousers and laugh.
“Well, I’d rather have an uncontrollable sword than something that looks like a cat that”s had its throat slit!”
“How would you know what that looks like?” I demand hotly.
“I saw it once.”
“What? When? Whose cat was it?”
“Old Mrs Creely’s.”
“How d’you know it wasn’t just run over?”
“I saw the people kill it with a knife.”
“Who?” My eyes are saucers.
“You don’t want to know.”
Oh, but I do.
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