.. her mind didn't know what to think. Bill tried to help, and she loved him for it. He had found a movie on babies, and Ai had watched entranced as t...e screen showed the inside of a woman and the wonderful creature growing in her. THAT, or at least two somethings like that, were in HER.She felt something wet on her feet.Leaning forward, Ai smiled as the puppy Bilbo came into view, looking for attention. With practiced ease she scooped him up into her lap, laughing as the dog began eagerly. ” “Exactly,” chimed the woman with the caramel colored skin and straight black hair as she leaned forward to enter the conversation, “Besides, that one's so drunk I doubt he'll be good for much. The other is kind of cute though,” glancing at me briefly, “But I get the feeling you'd just keep him all to yourself and we'd be stuck listening to the two of you all night.” The red head laughed lightly, dismissing her friends concerns. “Well that's the point ladies. I don't mean fucking that guy, I. But all shadow is not bad. I think there is good in shadow as well as bad. There is good in these humans’ shadow. Not all is good, perhaps much is bad, I do not learn enough that I may say and I am not sure I can ever learn so much. But I will not say their way is a bad way, only that it is not our way. And I do not know why it is that you should learn a way that is not our way if you do not wish. I learn because I wish it. But I cannot say you are wrong not to wish it.”He thinks on what I say. But I need to tell some that, well, that I'm out a'business." He made a lopsided grin.She nodded and saw him wince as he shifted position and then lie back down on his side. He held out his bruised hand. "See if y'can yank this ring off."It was difficult because his knuckle was swollen, but greased with a bit of soup, Anne managed to screw it off, a wide gold band with a square blue stone. "What is it, this triangle thing?" Masonic. A pyramid I think and dividers. Jus' go visit a few people,.