Seamus must have seen naked girls before by accompanying his father on his missions along the river, but he was looking at me as if I were from another planet: the cheeky boy was smiling at me until I was smiling back! For a moment I forgot everything around me and felt my heart ache, suddenly I felt the desire to run away to explore the wild wide world beyond the endless jungle. The young boys of the neighbouring tribes weren't that bad to imagine as future husbands, but the red-haired boy with the piercing green eyes had opened up my horizon to let me see further: suddenly the world around me had shrunk and the lovely village at the river was looking small and simple to me . . .