Terry Mixon wrote:
>>>He stopped outside the hatch and watched Kelly and April walk in the sand.
>>>
>>>"Ilane, shall we switch places with them and take a walk?"
>>>
>>>Shawn smiled at her.
>>
>>She smiled back warmly and offered him her hand.  "Sure..."
> 
> 
> He took her hand and went up the beach away from the lovers. He watched the waves roll in. "Did you
> have beaches like this at home?"

"More or less", Ilane said with a smile.  "My family used to live close 
to one of Cathay's oceans, so we used you go to the beach quite a bit 
when I was a child."

She looks into Shawn's eyes for a moment.  "How are the beaches on 
*your* homeworld, Shawn?"