”“They don’t sound so smart to me,” Jaeger muttered, nodding at the nearest alien to get its attention. “Hey you, what’s your name?”“S...oes,” it replied.“What you fail to understand, Lieutenant, is that although they appear to be talking at the level of an infant, they’ve achieved that after only a few hours. Most human babies don’t even start speaking until they’re around six months old, and it usually takes two years before they start forming simple sentences. At this rate, they might be. This was ridiculous. There was no way I wanted to be caned. How could I get out of this? Why were there butterflies in my tummy? Did I want to get out of this? For some reason, I thought my knickers might be getting damp.‘Um, I’m not sure it’s strictly necessary – at this stage. Maybe – maybe, um. Could I perhaps think about it?’ I waffled.There was another pause. God, this was painfully embarrassing! My knickers were definitely damp, and I couldn’t work out why…‘Well, I’ll tell you what,. No sense letting a subordinate know that he was an emotional boob.It was for that reason - the half formed tears in his eyes - that when Brad saw two women walking toward the limo he couldn’t see them as well as he’d have liked. One was Julie. Her form made that obvious. She was arm-in-arm with another slightly taller woman and they were walking in step. They walked in that gait that runway models use, a long stride that makes everything move on them and draws the attention of everyone within. Erin and I agreed for obvious reasons that we could never let her know. We had long since finished eating our ice cream and were talking over the empty bowls when we realized it was late and went to bedin our own beds. The next day was just like any normal Saturday for us. We did go out and do a little window shopping, looking at baby items&hellip,but it was still a bit early to be buying things like that. It was decided that we would wait until we knew whether the baby was a boy or girl before.