”“Ah, Mum! There isn’t any space in the fridge. It’s already so full that I’m amazed the door will close. I fully expect the fridge to give ...p the ghost any second from being worked too hard.”“Wait a minute, I need to think.” I listened to her breathing for about twenty seconds. In the background I could hear a constant hum of hospital-type activity.“We can’t use the cool box in the laundry – that already has drinks in it. But there’s an old one up in the roof. I’ll try to contact Dan and get. She smiledas his now-empty scrotum pulled tight against his crotch and fissured,splitting into two, thick, outer labial lips. The thin, red fissuredeepened, opening a tunnel into his body, a tunnel that linked up witha developing womb, which in turn sprouted a pair of fallopian tubesthat snaked their way into his newly formed ovaries."Your new, internal plumbing is just about finished, Moturo," shewhispered into his ear. "Now it's time for some additional work on yourexterior."The Queen Dominus. However, he did not know how they would respondto it. Real magic is not very common, and the responses to it over thecenturies have not been, by any measure, warm. He was as equallyconcerned that they would find out what he had been doing with it. He wasnot particularly ashamed by what he had done, but he was afraid of whatothers might think.Bobby could not think of anything that would get him to use that amuletuntil his two year anniversary with Amy started to close in. It was abouta week and. He'd seen her once, as she truly was. She'd opened herself up. Raw and exposed, overwhelmed by emotions she'd reached out to the Great Father and pulled him back from the oblivion of his grief over the loss of his brother. Nobody else could have done that. And they all owed her a debt for her bravery. The least he could do was try to save her now, when it was so painfully obvious she needed saving. Angel wasn't a pet project. Saving her from herself was no mission of mercy. The brotherhood.