Ben had been sleeping quietly for a while but suddenly he started crying at the top of his lungs."waaahhhhhhhhhhhh!" oh shit" Elly thought "here we go...Elly went to the bedroom, picked Ben up from his cot and started to try and rock him back to sleep. It wasn't working, she checked his nappy but it wasn't that."maybe he's hungry" Elly thought.She placed him back in his cot and went to the kitchen to get a bottle of breast milk that Libby had left for her. Just as she got to the kitchen she. It was embarrassing. First he thanked me for my comment. Then he reminded me that he was writing fantasies, where all boys could shoot three times in a row and spurt streams of semen every time, because it would be fun to be able to actually do that, even though none of us can. Well, not at my age anyway. Then he told me to reread the story because I was wrong when I said he never mentioned the tattoo in the story after the part where the kid peeked. I already knew I'd screwed up there,. One night I asked her about it and the fact that she always seemed to be so wet. She told me that being around all the young singles got her horny and she had to come home to me to get taken care of.But I wasn't all that sure that she was being truthful. About that time she stopped dressing conservatively for work. She began to wear short dresses and skirts and tight blouses and sweaters and when I asked her about it she told me that she was just trying to fit in with the younger group she was. It was all ancient history, carefully recorded and protected by the Praetors, whose real, unknown purpose was to protect the timeline in which New Eden would come to exist.Frank and Tanya had visited the day before, reminding Alana that Murielle and Miranda had been lost in time when Elaine had forced her Seeker's Circle to close the wormhole and seal it from ever being opened again. She was still upset about that, but Elaine was convinced that New Eden's survival depended on never returning to.