Want it? “It’s up stairs?” she asked.He laughed, “Your cute, come on,”She slowly walked up to him and put her hand into his, he gently tugge... hers since she wasn’t exactly moving her legs.“Close your eyes,” he whispered.She did and he led her up stairs, she almost tripped going up but he caught her and steadied her.“What’s my gift?” she asked nervously. Although she didn’t know what waited up stairs, her heart was racing.“You’ll see and if you don’t want it then just tell me.” He simply said.. I found my black heels by the steps, but not until I found my thigh hi hose with the seam down the back. Brian likes them on me, he says I look totally sexy in them.When I get to the top of the steps, Brian greets me with a big hug and a quick slap on my ass. Daddy turns his head and nods in approval. I get a glass of wine and head to the dining room table to make sure everything is set just so. The door bell rings; I go to answer and see mom with Jackson. I let them in, give mom a big. She had struggled forever to learn enough to convey the idea that she needed a to take a pill to release an egg. ‘Ooh?’ her husband had snorted, an egg? ‘Ushagoil?’ You’re a bird? Finally, he had understood that she needed a medicine to cure her barrenness. They had gone to a larger town to see a doctor! A doctor! These people were Millenialists, but not the second millennium, the first. They had retreated to the Dark Ages. Typhoid, diphtheria, whooping cough, the plague, those diseases had. You can see that carry through up until two months ago. Over the past two months, the number of births in our center has tapered off.”I’m pretty good at reading charts and graphs and looking for bullshit. You wouldn’t believe what corporations and the government try to prove with charts. Actually, you probably do believe them.“This is not just a reduction! This says you’ve gone to zero! No births?” That couldn’t be true. Could it?“That’s right,” Dr. Gardner said. “I do not have a single.