I closed my eyes, as fresh tears ran down my cheeks. Her finger continued its gentle path up my inner thigh. I didn't want to like this, the feel of h...r fingers on me, but it felt so nice after all that had happened to me so far. In spite of everything, I was beginning to enjoy the feel of her soft touch. Her finger found its way to my moistening slit… she spread my lips apart, and then I felt her hot breath on my pussy. I kept my eyes closed. I couldn't look at the others, afraid of what. "Swarta opened her eyes and love was not in them."Sorry for your pain, my love," was the only feeble thing I could think to say. Swarta just didn't seem pleased to see me."It's bad luck for the father to see his woman like this, Von!" Swarta yelled.I drew on all the dreams about childbirth that fed my mind over the last month.In soft words I said, "A White Wizard from Moon Mother? Really Swarta I am good fortune." I looked at Swarta's broadening opening, the crown of my child yet beyond. She. He never gave sermons or spoke in general, but it was well known that his office was the last place on earth into which anyone would wish to be called.He walked slowly and gracefully towards Sister Catherine, who quickly straightened and patted out any wrinkles in her habit. He passed her a note and whispered into the nun’s ear. She nodded rapidly, bowed her head, and said, “Of course, thank you.” As Father Michael stepped away, his head twisted with precision towards Alice and looked at her. She would always hate and fear, a little, the skeletal undead, but if she wanted to keep up, she needed to learn. Besides who was to say that future portals would not be just as bad or worse?Both Kate and Natalie’s eighteenth birthdays were Sunday and Monday. I had been informed that a public celebration for Kate would lead to her not speaking to me for months.Jude made the arrangements and paid for them. She made a dozen chocolate cupcakes with a single candle in each, no frosting. Sunday.