Even at a time like this, while seeing his baby girl for the first time, unable to stop himself from pondering, he wondered how different she’d look...if he had the baby with Emma instead of with Lorraine. He wondered if they would have had a boy instead of a girl. He imagined how much happier he’d be if Emma was the one in the maternity ward and not Lorraine. In the way he felt guilty thinking of Emma when he was standing at the altar marrying Lorraine, he felt guilty and felt like such a cad. “Errm, I guess so, I mean...” I stammered“You’re confused I know,” the woman interrupted “of course you are, everyone is at first, don’t worry. I expect you want to know where you are.” I nodded.“This is a pavilion of pleasure serving the horde of unholy lord Sameal,” this did not make anything any clearer and it clearly showed on my face because she then said“Ah I see you haven’t heard of the horde, what world are you from girl?”“Errm, Earth, I suppose,” I replied“Hmm, I haven’t heard of it,. I scanned through them. First one that I stopped on was from the trucking company manger. He was asking for another order of tires. He said that he now has a waiting list since we have priced them down so far that many independent truckers have begun to ask to be put on a list and to let them know when more tires will be in-stock.I sat back in my chair. Maybe we stumbled onto something. I sent a follow-up email to that manager telling him that I would order another batch of the greatly. Love so strong it took the end of the universe to finally break it.The rod travelled through space for an eternity. Billions of years passed it by. The construction of a billion galaxies, a trillion stars, a near infinite supply of planets and asteroids and debris.It found itself inside exploding stars; on planets burning alive; on worlds so cold the only movement could be found in asteroid strikes every few hundred years.Eventually, the rod travelled to a new system. This time, though, it.