Assuming our new home is finished – at least finished enough for the two of us to move into it – we’ll realistically only have room for one othe... person or one couple to stay here on the island – in the cabin.”Jennifer pondered my comments for a moment. “What do you think we should do? I guess we should be prepared to have Martin stay over but does that mean we can’t have many others?”“As we came back over from the main island, I thought about things. Here’s what I think might work. First,. The tentacle at the ponds end started twitchingand he could see large balls emerging through the pond and up into thetentacle. He counted almost twenty of them. He lost count when the first onepenetrated him. Searing pain started as the tennis sized ball of substancewas stretching its way inside. He felt it pass his sphincter and then flowinto him.It was that same blue substance. The blue goo coated his insides and wentstraight to work. It was absorbed into the bloodstream instantaneously.. If Charles had truly not noticed her, Jada would probably have turned around and come back twenty minutes later. But she was sure Charles had seen her, and in her bathrobe too. It seemed to Jada that to turn back now would be a mild insult to Charles. She would be making a statement she didn’t want to rely on Charles to be polite and follow the new rules.And how would this look to the other women? Jada had told them of the new social custom established on the surface. Would she be a hypocrite. Hester hung back for a moment, trying to understand this obnoxious creature before following her into the hut some moments later. Inside the small dwelling, the woman was hanging herbs in bunches that had appeared upon the table. She tied sprigs carefully together with lengths of coarse grass and then secured them to hooks arranged above the fireplace. When Hester entered, she offered him a friendly smile and continued her work. ‘I mean to leave this island,’ said Hester, sitting upon the bed..