You know there's a general strike starting next week?" Yeah, I heard on the news" said Lauren."Even if it's short, the country is in such bad shape th...t the situationwill be very volatile. People are already hungry. Soon you'll see pictures of sick babies who can't get milk or medicine. The papers will love it." Election or not, there will be problems" said Gustav.Elizabeth turned to her, touching her shoulder. "We have no right to keep you here, and think it's best if you return to Switzerland. ”Emma couldn’t help thinking, he’d have to be ‘like a gargoyle’ for her not to like a twenty-five-year-old, in her present state. Simon told her he would be arriving some time on the following Sunday. When that day came, Emma watched as Simon went to pick this Mark up from the airport.Emma had taken some time brushing out her dark brown hair, in her bedroom. Might as well be neat for the new arrival, she’d thought. She’d dressed in a tight body-fitting black dress, with blue panties but no bra. Instead, I leaned over and pressed my lips to hers. I teased her a little, running a fingertip over her bare arms and then the exposed skin between the hem of her t-shirt and waistband of her skirt.She was almost begging for it, but I didn’t hurry, as I played with her I noticed her legs becoming restless, she crossed them over, then uncrossed them, bent them until her feet were flat on the bed and back again.“I’m going to lift your top off, honey,” I said as I pulled her to a sitting position.. "You were fading, but then Mommy feeded you and you got all better," saidAllie."Fading?" She was losing her pretty color," offered up the child."Yes she did look a bit washed out. But then after I fed her she began tolook brighter," explained Calista as she sat nursing her newest child.Smiling now Sylvia stood up and offered her hand, "Thank you. Thank youso very much. I need to return to finish my research." She felt giddy andbrighter than she had.