That day will be a sad and yet happy one for me. I'll know my little girl has grown up but at the same time I'll miss her so much." I knew my eyes wer... watering up just thinking about her leaving me some day." You'll always be in my heart, daddy. We'll always be together."I just smiled; after all she was just a fourteen-year-old girl.We left the hospital and she seemed to be doing pretty good. The doctor said all her vital signs were fine and, of course, he gave us a prescription for a sedative. .." I didn't get to finish my objection as Tammy cut me off."You cannot apply the constraints of Earth to Crossroads and Chaos," she said.Alice took a simpler approach and just dropped her robe and helped me out of mine. "I want a baby, you are the Hero who rescued me and I want my reward," Who could or would want to argue with logic like that.I don't know how many hours those two played checkers but we were not quiet nor did we stop at just four restoratives. Something had Tammy's drive going. . I pointed at his earplugs.“I need a set of those.”“Ah ... yes ... peace in the family,” he said, with absolutely no trace of accent. “Lets go to town.”“You ... you ... shyster.” I said.“That, Señor, is an insult to my honor. I am not a lawyer,” he grinned, “However ... my claim is even older than my wife’s ... compared to mine, her family is new. Town?”“Wanna take my Dodge?”“What are you doing with...” an expansive sweep of the hand, “This.”“Ever seen an early Suburban?”“Yes...”“Dodge made. The bride was present for some ten minutes, in full purdah, after which she was to be offered to the Emir for the night, before being transported to her new husband's harem. In a thoroughly modernising, almost scandalous gesture, the Emir had decreed that a gallery, screened off but with peepholes, would be set up so that a few women could watch the wedding. Common people sometimes had weddings where such things happened, but it had previously been unheard of in the higher ranks of Kobekistani.