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hall he
opened a door and gestured her towards it. Inside the door was a
small bathroom with a shower, sink, and toilet. Out of curiosity Andi
turned the tap on in the sink. Cold water came gushing out. She
sighed with relief and thought, Running water. I'm excited that he
has running water. What's the world coming to? Wait, I don't think I
really want to know the answer to that.
    “Here you go.” Jake said,
handing a soft, fuzzy robe in through the door, “It works just
like a normal shower but you won't have a lot of pressure on the hot
water. At this time of day, just run it straight hot. The sun hasn't
had a chance to really heat the water yet. There's soap and shampoo
in the stall.”
    “You use the sun to heat your
water?”
    “Yeah, my regular hot water
heater is electric and I don't generate enough electricity to use it.
So I rigged a solar hot water heater on the roof. It works, mostly,
as long as there's any sun in the sky.”
    “You generate electricity? Hold
on, you know what? Let me shower, we can talk after.”
    “Good plan. I've got a few chores
to do so I'll leave you to your shower. Like I said, there's only
about eight minutes of warm water before you'll be back to just
cold.”
    “Okay.”
    Jake shut the door and she heard him
walking down the hallway. She stripped off her filthy clothes. They
were ragged in places and caked with dirt. She tossed them onto the
floor of the shower, figuring they could start getting clean in her
own rinse water. She'd scrub them a little and rinse them out after
but that she could do with cold water.
    Andi stepped into the shower and turned
the hot water handle. As he said, there wasn't much pressure, but
just feeling the warm water sluice over her body was wonderful. She
paid attention to his warning and just ran the water long enough to
rinse herself off and soak her skin and hair. She scrubbed herself
with the soap and shampoo, finding her just longer than shoulder
length hair horrendously snarled. Once she soaped herself up and
shampooed, she turned the water back on.
    She rinsed all the suds out and the
water was still warm. She took advantage of that and spent the last
minute or two that the warm water lasted letting it run over her
body, luxuriating in the feel of it. She stepped out when the water
started getting colder. After shutting the hot water off and turning
the cold on, she scrubbed her clothes as well as she could and then
rinsed them out. She didn't see anyplace to hang them so for now they
went over the shower door.
    She used the single towel visible in
the bathroom. As she dried herself off with it she smelled a
masculine odor on the towel. Unsurprisingly, it smelled like Jake.
    Once dry, she borrowed the brush on the
sink and tried to run it through her hair. There were several snarls
that just weren't coming out no matter what she did. She shrugged
mentally, There isn't much I can do about that right now.
    Andi donned the robe and tied it shut.
It was larger than she anticipated and, like the towel, it smelled of
Jake. She thought back for a moment, she hadn't really paid much
attention to how he looked but when she scanned through her recent
memories she realized that he was taller than average. He was also
very well developed with a large chest and muscular arms. She guessed
that his legs would probably match but she hadn't seen them, yet.
    She left the bathroom and walked back
down the hall. The hardwood floors beneath her feet were chilly until
she got to the living room where throw rugs covered the floors. She
spotted Jake sitting there, cranking a handle on a small radio. His
eyes flickered to her when she entered the room.
    “Is that one of those hand crank
charged radios?” she asked.
    “Yes, but it's more than just
that.”
    “How so?”
    “Well, the regular AM and FM
channels aren't broadcasting any more but this radio also picks up a
limited selection of shortwave bands. There are still a few private
broadcasts on the shortwave