As a result of being so isolated, Donna and El were very close because they spent every day, all day together. He adored his mother. She was his best friend as well as his teacher and the world’s best mother. There was nothing they didn’t discuss freely. El had never learned that there were some things a boy didn’t discuss with his mother. She had never restrained his questioning nature by making him feel uncomfortable about any subject.
“I think that smell is a woman’s natural scent, El,” his mother explained. “Thousands of years ago it was intended to attract men for mating. Have you ever seen how a male dog sniffs a female dog’s backside? They do that to tell if she’s in the mood for sex. Her scent tells them if she is.”