"Monica! Monica, wake up, it's just a dream!" I said, shaking her gently.Her eyes popped open and she gasped, the latched onto me and began sobbing un...ontrollably."It's okay, it's okay. I'm here, you're safe," I cooed softly."I'm sorry, I just can't get what happened out of my head."I got onto the bed next to her while still holding her close."Don't worry, while you're here, nobody will hurt you." You promise?" she asked."I swear."She let go of me and looked into my eyes."Will you stay in here. I was trying to keep a close eye on them so noone would hit on them. I ushered them into one of the booths by telling them we could watch a really nasty video. There was just enough room for the three of us. We started a porno and I noticed a glory hole on each side. Mom asked what that was for and I told her. She knelt down and looked thru it and said there was a man jacking off, she reached her hand thru and after a minute brought it back with jizz on it. She giggled and said that was fun.. "That makes me think. Although I have no conscious memory of carrying orgiving birth to Charlotte, if I concentrate I can understand what it feltlike to be pregnant with her. I'd be deceiving myself if I claimed I had nowish to experience motherhood for real.But if I'm to bear another child, someone will have to be its father."We'll need to...well, you know what I mean..." Elbetde."Her tone is flavoured with a mild rebuke, one I probably earned. A simplemovement of my brow would have been. The reinforced sheet-glass is set at an angle of sixty degrees so that the effect is that of an enormous skylight stretching upwards to fill the place once occupied by walls and roof, extending the entire length of this corner of the south-facing wall.Eva is working at her easel with her back to the glass, her red hair lustred with daylight. To Natalie, it is almost a warning beacon that says come no closer if you value your sanity. It is a moment of panic full of so many memories of hurt and.