The rest of class was devoted to thespecial perceptual abilities of elementals. She got thoughtful looks>from some of her classmates as they streamed ...ut of the room to go totheir next class. Through the day, Angel started to get a feel for what was happening -with a little help from Lena. The Pures were splitting into twocamps. Apparently, a large part of the Pures community was not allthat found of Barb in the first place. The authority of her fatherhad gone a long way toward holding the. Her breathing had quickened and she looked at me like she had when she first came in. However, before she seemed skittish, now she was unsure. "Why did you stop?" she asked.I swallowed, trying to wet my throat. "I thought you wanted me to."She leaned forward, almost touching her nose to mine. Her eyes filled my vision and in them was something familiar. I heard a quiet clap of her clipboard falling to the floor and then she laid the arm of the same hand I had been kissing across my cheek. "I. ”“That was a very practical view, John. You didn’t need any more girls to have sex with, so you could afford to consider their welfare.”“It was more than just practical, Numa. These girls were all that was left of their mother Bertha’s family. Losing one of them to childbirth through being too undeveloped would be close to killing them myself: I could not do that to Bertha.”“Ah, yes. I remember how pathetically grateful Bertha was to you, for saving some of her children from that monster. So. But could what she said have really been true? Would Scott have allowed it? I knew there was only one place I could get the truth and that was with Scott. I called him up and arranged to get together that afternoon. I got there to see him and he met me outside, his mother was having company over so he took me into the garage. Right away he started undressing me and I tried to resist, “Scott I need to talk to you, I need to ask you about something.” “In a few minutes baby but we need to.