Yesterday, I'd been home later and had no idea how long they'd been waiting.Benny's mobile rang. "Car just turning in the drive." I scuttled upstairs ...s fast as I could and held the unchewed end of the cloth across my mouth.The key grated in the lock; the door opened and I heard laughter. "We're here Deborah darling," Roderick called up the stairs, "I hope you are already for us."I didn't have a chance to do my moaning act. Benny's voice boomed out, "She certainly is fuckers and so are we.". I took her hands and pulled her to her feet.She threw her arms around my neck, buried her face in my chest and just started sobbing.Through her sobs, she gasped out, “Oh, Henry ... I’m so sorry ... I just ... never really ... really understood.”“Understood what, Connie?” I asked.“H ... How you must have felt seeing me with Mark.”“How could you not, Connie?” I asked, “I left you, divorced you, wouldn’t even talk to you.”“Oh, of course I knew that you were upset, no, angry, but I never really. "Demon is well behaved," I responded. "Besides he would never hurt themother of his first unborn Centaur Foal." Then I remembered the oneimportant thing that might cause him trouble with the Centaurs. Everyhorse in a Clydesdale Hitch was a Gelding, effectively turned into aNongen in the eyes of the Centaurs."Mr Green, please do not take this wrong, but if I were you, I wouldalter the general information handouts about the Hitch's. The Centaursdo not believe in Gelding a Stallion. And there is. Because MIs were so ubiquitous in Chofri technology, their abdication left the Gorz with little to steal.Over time, the probes followed the Gorz fleet as it moved from system to system, wreaking havoc whever it went. It was the probes that discovered one of the reasons the Gorz could put so many of their number in fighting ships. They could do this not just because they bred like rabbits, but because their factory fleet was manned mostly by enslaved races from defeated systems.Years passed, and.