..well, sir, this school provides a quality education, so naturally..." I was trying to butter him up, though I didn't really think it would help much... "Hm. Matter of opinion," he said. "Still. Yes. Um. Why are you here again?" "You wanted to see me, sir. My roommate and me? The woman in Housing--" "Ah. Yes. You. The dorm. Yes. You have a visitor there, I'm told." This was it. I had to swallow. "Sir, I can explain--" "Yes. A female visitor. As I'm told." . James told his symptoms, and the nurse said that this seems to be going around and escorted them to an examination room. A Doctor took a look at James and took some readings."Did you by chance have the shrimp?" the Doctor asked James. "Yea, I did. About three plates full." James replied."Well, you're not the only one that has this. It seems like everyone who had the shrimp has come down with a rare illness, and it requires total observation and treatment. Now it's not fatal, but for your. The part of you that is a healthy, young, female mammal. One that has reached sufficient sexual maturity to breed successfully, at least if we still lived in a hunter-gatherer society, that is. Our civilization has evolved significantly since the Paleolithic era, but our biology has hardly changed at all." So, your program here makes me dumb down to like a cave girl or something?" Oh, not at all. As I've explained before, the human brain is designed to deal with stress. In the modern era, our. The young guardsman and the maidservant thawed to each other and talked over their shared meal. Joerg learned that Ilka had been born in Prague, and she had come to Merseburg as the handmaid of some merchant's wife. The mistress died in childbirth, leaving Ilka stranded. She entered the Countess' service then, quite happy for the comfortable position. This had changed now, and she contemplated going back to her native Prague.For his part, Joerg told her of his travels and of the trouble at.