This newcomer was anarrogant man, I decided, by his haughty, brusque manner.Gaius Marcus introduced the new man. "Majesty, this Quintus CorneliusNoren...s, the new emissary from Rome. He has just arrived. He willreplace me and oversee the transition when authority in Genoria passesto the Roman Empire. He will also become the governor of the city."Inwardly I felt dismay that we would have such a person to governGenoria but I dared not show it and I tried to be diplomatic. "Iwelcome you to our. Jerry was unable to wave. His arms were round Emma and Zoë."Been bullying your big sister again?" Jerry smiled."No, Dad. Preaching to the converted." She pulled his head down and gave him a kiss. "We both love you."Emma looked on, her heart brimming with happiness.That night the letter writer struck again leaving a pile of straw on the front doorstep. The accompanying note read:STRAW BURNS. GET OUT BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.It was Jean Warner without a shadow of doubt. She was a little disconcerted. He whimpered in surprise when she suddenly moved forward, pulling away from him. She pulled herself up to her knees, her arms folded against the rug and her head resting easily against them. ‘Now,’ she whispered with a smile. ‘Come here.’ He moved behind her, taking time to allow his hands to travel along the curves of her body, the slope of her back as she waited for him, and finally gliding across her cheeks raised toward him. His hand shook slightly as he grasped the base of his cock, slick. A whole new scientific field in biology had developed since pandemics became way too common, shrinking the world’s population to a third of what it had been when the twenty-first century began. Although painful it had greatly helped a number of man-made issues. Populations were overgrown so that strict birth control had been adopted worldwide. Global warming had not been well countered due to the selfish goals of politicians and business powers so they had fallen too. Chronically warm parts of.