"I can think of no better way to help them recover." He put his drink down and gathered Meghrani into his arms. "Do you think it would help or hurt fo... them to hear your cries of joy as I bring you to climax?"Meghrani pulled back, "You can think of sex at a time like this!" When she saw the thinly veiled smile that always accompanied his teasing her, she relaxed into his comforting arms. "Perhaps I am wrong, and they are right. There just might be an evil man lurking behind your smiling lips. As the two ships drew closer and closer to Demeter the Tonto-augmented communication increased. The distance wasn't a factor; they had instant communication at all times. However, as they drew closer they thought of each other more often and so talked a lot more. Most of it was chatter about who would be going where and with whom and doing what was anyone's guess as to the nature of their new home world. Some of the talk was strictly family:"Hi, Grandpa Dan," Ellie thought to her only. Her mother looked, as they say, as if she had been ridden hard and put away wet.”“OK Mom. What do you want?” she asked.“That’s no way to greet your mother. We haven’t seen each other for such a long time,” Amanda replied.The younger woman hesitated a moment before speaking.“Mom you took off about, what — a year and a half ago. The note you left Dad said you needed to find yourself. And that was the last that any of us heard from you until today,” Janey said, placing the blame squarely where it. It was all to the good, as far as she was concerned, and, in fact, she'd even encoded the modified DNA to make the plant's injections more potent.Of course, the Doctor also had safeguards. She had no idea how long the plants would 'feed' on a victim, and didn't want to find out the hard way. So, she rigged special lights which would force the plants into quiescence after a certain amount of time. The Doctor knew that she would never be held more than four hours, or for less than one.However,.