We were healing more and more patients. The doctors finally came to me and had me run Marsha through Joe's machine. She was back to being human again....ay 15 Bangalore:What a day--the Endeavor returned with Fran, Wendy, Heather and Kara. Sushi had her bull semen and Anu had five hundred chicks for the hen house brooder. There would be a lot of happy cows and we would soon have fresh eggs for breakfast.The real prize was the lumber mill. It had been rebuilt so it was centaur compliant. We took it. I have an idea. Could I take the young out on the raft to see them better? They would be meeting another new species. On the raft they will be perfectly safe.”Interesting, Gongon was deferring this one to Landda. He was torn, I could tell. This would be a new experience for them but they also did not swim and did not particularly like the water. Landda could see the decision was being pushed to her and she wasn’t sure, either. But ultimately it came down to trusting me and I had never let them. They were much larger versions of the shrubs, which had fascinated her earlier. "Those must be great grow-lights they have up there," she mused, trying to bolster her courage.The velvet-leafed plants had become true giants. The stubby trunks had attained a thickness of four to five feet and a height of ten feet. Large drops of sappy secretion nested on their downy skins. The creepers radiating from the trunks' squat bases were as thick as Jasmine's wrist and four to five feet in length.. "It was last night, Mistress, after swimming. One of the lifeguards turned out to be a dominant, like you." And?" Gretchen was staring her in the eyes while still holding her breasts."She ... she said she liked to hurt women's boobs. She grabbed me from behind and started squeezing them really hard, and pulling on them. She really did hurt them. Then I saw the bruises this morning." And you couldn't fight her off?" No, Mistress. I was kind of trapped and couldn't get up." Oh? Why not?" Because.