There has not been any communication between her and Mikkel. She is a little sad, but her spirits are never dampened. The days have blurred as always,...but today she feels the winds of time will bring something new into her life. After a long day at work, she walks beside her friends, Laura and Heidi, down the hall of the barracks to her room. The ease others feel beside her are stronger as her birthday approaches. Laura and Heidi are deep in conversation discussing how to celebrate their. "You know you don't have to actually have a partner to have a baby nowadays, why not take that route?" Because, HONEY, our babies need to know their father. We don't want any random sperm. We want yours. There. We've said it. We'd like you to consider a relationship, hopefully permanent, with us."I'd known it was coming. I was a little dense sometimes whem it came to women, but not that dense. I still couldn't understand why, why me of all people. Oh, I was personable, not repulsive to look at,. Honestly, up until now, I haven't really felt anything either way about the rest of you except some camaraderie, and it was really starting bother and worry me. I was afraid I would be forced to sleep with people I wasn't interested in, or even worse, have sex with people who didn't really want me to. What we felt just now when we hugged was a huge relief. It means I'm starting to become seriously interested in you as well. That I'm not just fixated on Xifeng and, to a lesser extent, Steve. I. She just stared back in concealed shock of her own. ‘A human? No ways… The hell would those weaklings be looking for this deep in here?’ Then it clicked. He was way too large to be a human. Wings weren’t visible but tainted feathers lay at his feet, grey looking from where she sat although that could have just been the dim light’s doing. She had never actually seen one before but if he was what she thought he was, that made him all kinds of dangerous. If he read her thoughts at that moment, he.