She giggled again. She couldn't wait.Daddy noticed how she wiggled in her chair. He watched her twisting back and forth as she ate her dinner. "Sit st...ll, child. Your surprise is coming right after we finish eating.”After they had all finished eating, Melody got up to do dishes. But the boys took her by the hand and led her into the living room."Not tonight, Mel,” Peter said.She smiled at them.Daddy was in his chair, waiting for them. "Well, Melody you’re all grown up now. I can hardly believe. At first, the subject and acts were banned, as no one knew what would happen, or if a woman somehow got pregnant, what the result would be. Eventually, the scientists suggested studying the possibility, but laws were passed forbidding contact other than the scientific experiments. Women volunteers were sought, and the initial candidates were either prostitutes or people into various fetishes.Despite the laws, however, some had begun secretly 'mating' with some of the aliens. In order to prevent. . but," Martin continued, "it is still my duty and obligation to give you an official briefing on what is facing us out there and to show you our intelligence department's best guess on their overall intentions. So... with that in mind, let me show you some satellite overheads of the Eden LZ. These were taken just before sunset tonight." The screen changed to show a high-resolution image of the ten square kilometers around the landing zone. The large shapes of the landing ships were plainly. My feet barely touched the ground as they dragged me from the car to Belli's office. I was intimidated, to say the least. Belli is Italian for beautiful, and was therefore an extremely ironic name for him. He held up a finger at me, and finished a phone call. I didn't know whether to be insulted or glad to have a moment to try and prepare myself. In either case, I still wasn't ready when he hung up the phone."You stole from me Ms. Bell. Can I call you Kathryn?" Uh, yes, please do. And I'm.