Even when they'd been just getting together back in grad school, John and Eve knew they were strongly inclined toward parenthood, despite the obvious ...mpossibility of Eve being able to bear children. Their decision to get married years before, back when both of them were starting work on their doctorates, carried with it the agreement to eventually adopt children. Since they had schooling to complete and careers to establish, they'd decided to put it off until the time was right.Due to Eve's. That was to say nothing of the underground metro lines, and the above-ground walkways that weren’t shown here.He needed to either join up with his squad, if they were even alive, or he needed to exfiltrate. He wouldn’t last long if he remained in the city center while the build-up of Covenant troops continued. There was no GPS connection, the satellites might have been victims of the invasion fleet, but he plotted a course through the city all the same. He had to hope that there weren’t too. He had, as many of the club members had said over the years, enormous charisma. Sexual magnetism seemed to roll off him in waves, like mist off of dry ice. He was the club, and everyone there knew it. And they worshipped him.He looked the first young woman deeply in the eyes, then ran a finger up her arm to her bare shoulder. She shivered violently. He nodded. “Accepted.”The next candidate was a young man, who regarded Tor with some hostility, challenging him. Tor leaned back and glared at him.. "I think I need a good stiff drink," she muttered along the way.*****Albert Teller woke up to the soothing sounds of the nearby babblingstream. For several minutes, he just laid quietly where he was simplytaking in all those wonderful sounds around him. When he finallydecided to open his eyes, he had no idea where he was, how he'darrived wherever he was, or even what time it was.Quite clearly he was outside somewhere.But where?And it was now just as obviously daytime.But how?None of this was.