." Beth started gnawing on her bottom lip, a sign I'd seen before and an indication of just how nervous she was. "I don't want to give them false hope..., but they seem so desperate." You want me to grab your Nikon and try the camera trick?" You mean get them into skimpy bikinis and take their pictures? Oh, yeah, I can just see how that would work! Maybe if I took them to the mall and had them try on some new clothes..." She mused."Sure, then take them back to your place and show them the magic. "Positives are servants of humanity's survival," I recited."Institute propaganda," she said. "Or more accurately, the Director's propaganda." Is that what you think?" I asked coldly."No," she replied carefully. "But I'm a woman whose man is keeping secrets." Assigning a Healer to the Euro-Institute is a large enough gift that they have to accept the terms of the Director's proposed merger," I told her."I had to get involved with the only Positive who can, at will, heal a person's sex drive,". My m*m came up to see if i was ok and i pretended to be ill , going for sympathy, she fell for it and went to get me a hot chocolate, a knock on my door let me know she had brought it, and shouted her to come in.It wasn't her it was my s*ster, with a huge naughty grin on her face.I was in bed in my pyjamas, the duvet pulled high and defensive, she in her dressing gown, long warm , slippers on her feet.She put the drink by my bed and sat on the bed room chair by my bed. Starring at me , slightly. I decided to keep talking -- I wasn't there yet. "I didn'tstart with him that way, but that's how it's ending. He got lonely,and saw how satisfied I always seemed to be when I come home. Hethought it was from all from being with my girlfriends and wanted tojoin us. He has no friends of his own -- I didn't like them when wefirst got married, and discouraged them. So every Friday he prepareshimself to join us. Learns our talk, our mannerisms. I've even taughthim how to do the harmless.