章 47: Teaching and learning

When they reached the river bank, Jocelyne immediately ran to get her feet wet; she took off her shoes and stockings and let the waves cover her up to her ankles. As soon as the magnificent sensation of freshness reached her legs, she couldn't suppress a groan of satisfaction.

If it hadn't been that she didn't have any spare parts, she would have taken off her clothes too and washed them from top to bottom. She had been wearing them for three days now and they were covered in leaves, drool, sweat, sand, dirt and even dead insects. If she would have had an alternative she wouldn't have hesitated to tear them off and burn them.