I have taken the precaution of downloading your computer's memory into our systems, although it is of an ancient mode we will be able to adapt the dat..., and from that will be able to determine your possible destination point. Be assured we will stop you, unless you decide to abandon your quest, either join us or be prepared to stay with Pluto for ever."Wilma pondered the message, a warning and an invitation in one. But her duty was clear; she had to preserve her time at all costs, either to. Stanly led his men through the doorway leading under the poop deck. They found the door to the captain's cabin unlocked, so Stanly looked in. The cabin was not nearly as neat as one would expect for a seagoing vessel. Clothes were strewn about, and there were more weapons in evidence than was normal. A man and a woman were sleeping in the captain's bunk, and the remnants of a drinking binge were still on the chart table.Stanly put a dagger to the man's neck and woke him and the woman. Stanly. Talamia! Turning about as fast as he could he was just in time to see Brent hurling a fireball at his concubine.Rage erupted within Jake. Quickly he concentrated on flying to her rescue, but something strange happened. When he opened a flow to the ether, he felt a sharp twist in the currents about him; before he could even gasp in surprise, an unknown force ripped his feet from under him and sucked him spiraling into the rift. Immediately his will was under heavy assault. The energy crashed. ”“Lord, will you please tell me what this ‘birth control’ is you refer to.”Jack explained to Construct about different birth control methods - the pill, implants and similar hormone-based methods, condoms and diaphragms and sponges, spermicides, IUDs, and anything else he could think of. He got the idea Construct didn’t approve, though he agreed that probably even Jack’s super-sperm would be ineffective against most modern methods.“Lord, surely some of the children you have already fathered may.