It was a little longer than Mr. Kenton wanted, but she messengered a copy of the folio to his hotel, as per his wishes. She didn't seem to expect anyt...ing back, but the next evening she had news."He wants it!" She grabbed me, as I entered the apartment, squeezing me hard in a hug, crushing a bag of groceries with one of those long loafs of French bread sticking out of it, that hadn't had time to set down,. "And he wants to use it for his next tour!"The next two months flew by. Mary was kept. " "They need a minimum genetic pool to prevent inbreeding. It's already dangerously close to the extinction factor as it is. In fact some of their geneticists reckon they've already gone too far and weakened the gene pool fatally. There's a huge political row about it as we speak. You see a girl's eggs are all genetically identical so the scope for genetic diversification is limited when you apply population control." "So why don't they only preserve a few eggs from each girl then more girls. There were a few other faces he recognized from the school but most of them were fourth years and from his two magic classes. Standing off to one corner and away from most of the party were two people he hadn't wanted to see; Agnes and her twin brother Dawkins. 'Just tell me it's not Agnes,' he whispered under his breath when their eyes met. Aura just chuckled silently and continued to lead him further into the room as people began to crowd in around them with smiling faces. Richard thought. I saw her eyes when she spoke of him. I knew there was still something there. We started talking about 'what if' scenarios."What if we want a baby?" It was her question. I guess I'm the one who brought up the idea of getting a sperm sample from Dave. We talked more. Had a plan. Were gonna get Dave over and get him drunk and ... Then we scratched that one. We'd just approach him and be direct about it. Dave would marry me and then he could have both of us. And one or both of us would get.