Beatrice and he were standing on the Moon's surface, but many kilometres beneath their feet were successive levels upon levels of streets, walkways, a...enues and tall buildings. The surface area of the Moon might be much smaller than Earth's, but the lunar cities weren't restricted at all in their subsurface expansion. In fact the Moon's urban sprawl supported a much larger population than the whole of planet Earth.Lunar citizens bobbed up and down in the low gravity when they walked as if it. Did I have some special meaning now?Pshaw, they scoffed, Don’t be silly. Nothing to do with you, why do humans think everything is about them. You are no more important than any other life-form. The universe has just re-aligned it’s focus is all, a rare and notable event. How can we put it- Oh, as if there was a rare eclipse or a comet impacting a giant gas planet or new brilliant super-nova visible on this one.They started their ‘win’ dance again, so I slipped out the open iris of the UFO and. "Once we were able to see your, uh, home as we drove closer, we couldn't seem to take our eyes off of it. It's truly beautiful," Denise said."Thank you," The Queen responded as she ushered them to seats grouped near the big fireplace. "It took a while for us to get used to it, but we feel at home now."Dave and Evie came in, and after refreshing acquaintances with the construction workers, everyone sat. Before anything much could be said, Jennie came in with a serving cart bearing coffee and. Move your butt!"I groaned and curled up into a ball to try to stay warm but my beautiful lady wasn't having any of it. She ran her—COLD!!—hand up my leg finishing with a frozen goose. Suddenly I was on my feet, wide awake."Damn, woman! You could cause permanent damage doing things like that!" It worked didn't it?" she grinned, then yelped—she'd forgotten I knew where her ticklish spots were.Grumbling to myself about how unfair life was, I got dressed, put on my parka and Sorels and trudged to.