By letting his guard down, Bradseemed to be falling into the trap of the sinister professor. Hedecided he needed to make a greater effort to reject t...e femaleconditioning he seemed to be immersed in. But then he received a textthat something was unusual with the scans they performed today, and theyneeded him back first thing in the morning. Though he wasn't sure ifthe visit was necessary or if she just wanted to torture him some more,Brad didn't want to risk it.So he arrived early the next. It was so large it barely fit inside Deimos. (That wasn’t quite true; there were several miles clearance in every direction, but it was a tight fit, especially if you were accustomed to navigating in open space.)‘She’s off in that direction,’ Beth realized, hearing her noisy sister thinking out loud. Teleporting most of the distance, Beth dropped down on her bare belly, seeking once again with her mind. She kept her own mind quiet, which was something that her sister either couldn’t do, or. Does this sound to you like someone who'd just dump someone she loved for no good reason?" No," Mom grinned, "not at all."She launched herself into my lap, and buried her head into my shoulders-desperately, I could tell, trying not to cry. "Thank you," she whispered to me with a sniffle. After a minute of that, she controlled herself, pulled her head up, gave me a big grin, and said, "If you ever make me almost cry in front of your parents ever again, I'll cut your balls off and feed them to. "She giggled and said, "Daddy predicted this when you struck out three Yankees in the sixth inning the other night. Now show them what you can do in a pennant race, and see how anxious he is to ship you out."I needed to pop her balloon, before she got her hopes up. "This is when teams scour their rosters for an upgrade. That's usually someone they haven't thought of since spring cuts, but who was on the forty man roster at some point, before September first, to get them through to the playoffs..