Learning the Wood Mill

The Spiets family is out on a picnic, in the foothills around Mt Ika. Jack and Addie have wandered off, and they're exploring some abandoned sheds in an old rundown orchard. Across a small ravine is another clearing, and some young fellows seem to be doing the same thing over there. But who knows, they could be up to anything.

Addie rejoins Jack behind one of the weathered buildings.

"Vick, those guys were whistling at me." she says, with a conspiratorial glance, and showing a trace of pride.

Well, thinks Jack. So what? You're telling me that as if you're half expecting I should take you over there or something. Or you want me to leave and you go over. What's with you? Is it so flattering? From that distance they could barely tell that you're female, you know.

I could imagine it was me, over there; what would it mean to me? A whim, a joke, a dash of daydream! A momentary lapse of manners just for fun, from the bushes.

"Yeah?" he replies, frowning a little. And no more is said. They slowly wend their way back to join the others.

Now why would she feel that way. Almost as if she accepted an obligation to them. They gave her something? A bond, an agreement was implied initiated cemented by a wolf whistle?

Presenting Is this what was established millennia Ago, that just by wanting her, a male Attracts a female so, that she inclines To go to him although he is a total Stranger? By way of such a simple and barely A symbolic sound? And she, a younger girl, Supposedly a timid child, afraid Of strangers and of all the outside world As girls are trained to be, so blatantly Responds to such a call! It is amazing.