’ As I drove, I offered a silent prayer to whoever might be listening, for my ever-patient and understanding wife, who had worked so hard all throug... our marriage to help us build the life we’d planned. *** We walked out of the doctor’s office, and I guided Pam to a seat in the empty reception area. I sat next to her and put my arm round her shoulders as I’d done when she first told me how unwell she’d been feeling. We sat in silence for long minutes. Then she turned her face towards me.. . I would get to watch over his many descendants with the women around us. His children with Kora, Ava, Nathalie, Zanyia, and Greta would all exist. They would have their own lives and their own faerie ... faerie-grandmother to watch over them and guide them.I couldn’t wait for Ava to have her first baby. For Zanyia and Kora and Nathalie and Greta to all conceive. It would be so wondrous. My wings fluttered in pure joy at the prospect. I wouldn’t be alone once all those I loved died because I. After a while the thick mangrove forests that bordered the Krell settlement had given way to marshland, flat terrain with a few scraggly trees clinging to life here and there. There was a layer of water that covered the muddy ground, almost knee deep to Lena, she could feel the damp earth beneath her bare feet. Where the mud had been mostly barren before, it was now covered in reeds and grasses, these species apparently able to cling to the mud without the help of the mangrove roots. Maybe the. I kissed him for about five seconds and he reduced his shaking. "Its okay, its okay, Max. I'm not mad, but oddly turned on now. It seems I'm a dirty step sibling too." It took a minute for him to calm down completely and then he looked right at me. "You are not mad?" I shook my head no. "You like to masturbate thinking about your stepsister and I get off on that. I've seen you do it many times before, but I would never bust you, because you are a great step brother." "Thank you, I guess." "So,.