“You throw good parties. Lots of sex, no screaming matches or fights. Nobody got drunk and threw up on anybody. Just people having fun. Even Kay’s...meltdown didn’t spoil it.”“I don’t get a chance to have parties very often, at least not on this scale. I live alone in a nice apartment in Suntree. It’s only big enough for five or six couples. There are too many retired people in the homeowner’s association and they’ve banned sex in the community pool area. That puts a damper on what my guests can. ‘Phone sex. Phone sex! Phone, phone, phone, sex, sex, SEX!’ Mina gave up trying not to laugh and just muffled the sounds in her pillow. ‘You’re impossible.’ ‘It’s probably best that you accept that now.’ Mina rolled her eyes and settled back against her pillow. ‘I suppose you’re right. Lucky for me, you’re not here right now so I could just hang up if you keep teasing me.’ ‘No, don’t hang up.’ Mina was surprised by his urgent tone, as if he was worried that she would end the call. ‘I…I like. Somehow the Cashda, or the ancestors, had come from earth. My nose didn't do its amazing job on them and apparently theirs weren't doing that trick with me either.In a way it made sense if they had come here from earth somehow. I had the ability for phenomenal nose performance on things that were native to Margata. If these Cashda, or horses, weren't native then it made sense that I wouldn't be able to smell them that well.Just then the herd stallion made a loud snort, and glancing at him I. Men expected that, she was neither terribly experienced nor particularly enthusiastic about sex. She had had sex with three men in her life. The first had been her high school boy friend on the night of the senior prom in the back seat of his daddy’s car and it had not been particularly pleasant. Her husband of four years hadn’t done much to spark her enthusiasm. She had pretty much decided that sex was overrated. There had been a third man but it had been little more than a one night stand.