"And will she find some strange, crusty stains on it?" he asked."What the hell kind of question is that?!", I said. He reminded me that he was direct,...blunt and nosy and that I shouldn't be shocked."Look," he said, "when I was your age, I jerked off a lot, and my mom probably washed a ton of underclothes, sheets and pillowcases just like yours. It's no big deal, O.K.? We're a couple of strangers who will never see each other again, so why not level with me?" O.K.," I replied. "You're right,. .it was always like this.I undressed and showered quickly, but Richard screwed up my routine by showing up early. I was still in my panties when the doorman called to let me know he was waiting. I told the guy to tell him I'd be down in 10, but he said Richard was already on his way up on the elevator.I let him in with a big hug and kiss. We had been hot and heavy with each other for a while, but it had tapered off in recent months. We still slept together on occasion, and I think he cared for. Long story short, she told me she was just divorced and wanted to know if I was still around and, well, maybe interested. She said she was and I then told her I was and I was ... to both questions.Our first date pretty much set the pattern for us ever since.I picked her up at her apartment, she had a daughter, Sierra, who was eleven at the time, and she was next door at an elderly woman's apartment being babysat and as soon as we were in my car, she leaned over and asked, "You're probably gonna. My body could never have produced that much tissue in so short a period of time. The implication is that she was strapped for energy when she healed me, but has now somehow acquired another source, or expanded her ability to do so. She has already said that she wasn't originally designed to evolve, or at least, not evolve much. Hmmm. Maybe the ship was somehow her primary source of power. But how could she develop her own power source. Shit, I wish we could really talk to each other. This is.