"You see, I'm impervious." As she opened her robes, he averted his eyes from her naked body, but looking up again, he saw nothing beneath her head and she was gone, replaced by a feathered snake that swum round the fire and smiled.
  He thought he heard the cry of a monster. "I'll be right back," Barry screamed, running to a spot in the sand, where he frantically carved out pictures, digging deeper into the sand as it spilled away, erasing itself, pictures of bars, Molly, and Doug.