”I don’t know. The world doesn’t exist, except this tiny little bit where he connects with me, and right now that’s the whole universe. And I�...�m riding him hard, his hands grasping my hips, guiding, urging, because I’m driving towards a goal, fire, pressure, sound building in me until... “Dillon! Push!” I hiss through clenched teeth.The boy bucks up hard into me, then again, and again, and... “HangonJenn!!!!” and I collapse into his arms. He does a few more pushes.“Wow!” Jamie remarked. “That. .. it’s not ... we—”Darian waved a hand and nudged Otrera back, away from Pinna. For a moment Otrera considered putting Darian’s head into the ground for touching her, but the man shook his head and sighed.“It’s ok Pinna,” he said. “I get it. Gallea’s earned enough credit for the both of you. Stay out of the way best you can, but if things get bad and you need us to help you, you’ll need to become visible again.”Pinna’s smile grew until she was beaming. “Hopefully that won’t happen. But .... "She rubbed my shoulder, "just this one for now."The entrance was sealed with a slab of stone but she kept looking at it. She grinned and gestured and we pushed on another stone on the wall that slid aside in a groove. I pushed on the door and then moved to one side to try it again at her suggestion. The door swivelled to leave a meter and a half gap.I looked inside before stepping into thick dust. There were a few plants but not many and no signs of animals. We moved into the building. For someone who had balefully contemplated a loveless life as wife and mother of someone's heir, she seemed pretty excited about the prospects of being pregnant. The fertility drugs they had in those days were just as effective as the ones we have today; if a woman had the ability to conceive and the man wasn't shooting blanks, chances were excellent that within a few weeks she would be.Anyway, three things seemed to happen almost at once; well, four if you count finding out Eve was going to.