And what have we done with that great and unique discovery? Nothing! We have allowed a single event—a tragic one, to be sure, but just one solitary ...vent—to frighten us away from what is potentially by far the most rewarding return that our investment in interstellar exploration could ever reap."Who knows why that long-ago landing failed? Did the natives feel themselves threatened? Was something in the lander party's demeanor, their appearance, their attire menacing in these creatures'. “Lynn, I think she is thinking that.” Erin’s smile got wider.“Erin?” Lynn paused for a few seconds before the lightbulb went on. “Blossom, you little vixen!”“No! I am not. I wasn’t. Shit. It just popped in my head. I just thought ‘Oh, no milk. Where’s Erin?’.”I broke out laughing. I was laughing so hard my side and head hurt. Lynn was also laughing, though not as hard as me. Erin was just amused. With a smile on her face, she just walked over to Blossom holding her left breast out like a fire. Then I helped a few people to get jobs outside our community. That resulted in a surprise: I started being asked to find reliable staff for some companies in the city, so we became a recruitment agency as well as a money-lender and property investor.It surprised me, how much we had achieved by treating people as genuine people; not simply sources of revenue."Tom looked at his conception of Esme again, seeing her in a new light: as a community activist in a poor district, fighting to help folk. It was not just the pleasure she had received but the realisation that she was sexually excited at the idea of using her skills to give others the same or even greater pleasure. The brief glimpse she had been given of two of Angela’s therapists at work had acted as a catalyst on her libido and had unlocked an erotic side to her nature that had lain dormant until then. Her waking and sleeping dreams were filled with explicit images of both male and female clients writhing in orgasmic rapture as.