Whilehe was happily married, the idea that an attractive woman would behelping to conceal his masculinity behind layers of frills and lacemade him sic... to his stomach.As Serena finished her greetings with Drew, she turned her attention toBen. She looked him up and down and said, "I can work with this." You think you can make him look believable?" Drew inquired."We call it passable in my line of work," Serena explained with a smilebefore she added, "He'll definitely be passable when I'm done. I showed him a sample of my trading material, and I was surprised to see the red intensify in his aura. Obviously, he wanted my mother-of-pearl and was not inclined to be overly honest with how he got it. We negotiated a trade very favorable to me, and I had a feeling that he expected to recover his amber shortly after the trade was complete.It took about three hours to complete the exchange. He wanted the entire 47 pounds of mother-of-pearl, and he surrendered 66 pounds of amber to get it.. Peter duly obliged and he really knew how to make the best use oh his assets. We finished up and I fixed myself up and made our way back to the Church.Luckily for me, Aunty Betty was too busy to notice my absence and the rest of the evening was uneventful. The evening finished at a respectful hour and we all said goodbye to each other and were ready to leave when one of the other adult supervisor's, the deaconess of the church, whispered something to Aunty Betty. This caused me some concern. Then I said, “Jim, it’s even gotten to the point that I’ve been considering weaning our son off breast milk, so I can start looking for another teaching job. We just have to find a way to make more money, or we could lose everything. And we have also been considering having another child, which will make it even harder for us.”Jim listened sympathetically, and he seemed even more attentive when I mentioned that I was breast feeding. He put his huge arm around me as he thought for a minute and.