"Remember the device," I muttered to myself under my breath, wonderingyet again why I had ever let myself be talked into such a bet.Once everything el...e was done, I slipped on the pair of stiletto-heeledshoes that Emma provided and stood up, almost immediately losing mybalance. I might have fallen flat on my face if I hadn't been able tocatch the side of the desk."This shall be amusing," Emma laughed, "I suppose that it only provesthat you can not make a silk purse from a sow's ear." Whatever,". Young single femmies have a hell of a life and little prospect of advancement. If the rare occasional femmie does want to pursue a career, she'll get nowhere! There's a sort of sublimal segregation developing. I've heard femmies talking about it everywhere. There's RG only clubs opening up everywhere. I've even heard snide remarks made about centaurs and I feel distinctly uncomfortable sometimes. Remember, us centaurs are still outnumbered by about five to one." But the RG's can't do without. We leave everything here, taking only our rifles, torches and radios.’ ‘Agreed.’ ‘We try to find them and circle and get ahead of them to ambush them.’ Ned smiled grimly, ‘Yes and we must hope we’re not the ones ambushed.’ Mid-morning Sally had gone up to a rocky outcrop and came back excitedly. ‘I saw several birds rise up in alarm about two hundred yards ahead of us and about 100 yards lower down from us. We must hurry forward keeping at this height and eventually move down about seventy. He never really held hands with anyone before, but when he took Emma’s hand in his tonight it just felt so wonderful and right. There is an intimacy in holding hands he never knew the sensuality of before.This is one more thing Emma is teaching him. His former view of the clinical sexual acts and arousal are changing to realizing the feeling of tenderness and the longing simple act can bring to someone.And in this new knowledge and feeling that go with this he feels himself start to.