Mme Natalia seemed to be happy as well. I should have known the questions Monsieur M had asked me were only the beginning. With Alejandra alternately ...ooking interested or bored or embarrassed, Mme Natalia methodically took me through my family history.She put all of the security clearance interviewers I’d ever had to shame. Ethnic background, who were my grandparents, what kind of work did my grandparents, all four of them, do, what about my parents. How many brothers and sisters did I have. Well my uncle was watching me for the night well my grandmother was at work. It started out normal sock hocky in the kitchen, ham sandwitches for lunch, and a drive to the store to pick up dinner and snacks. My grandmother was a health nut so there wasent much that tasted good but my uncle had gotten us pastries from the store. Well we had made one extra stop along the way at the news stand. My uncle left me in the car and told me that he would be right back that he wanted something to read and. .together." Yeah," he says, stroking my hair."Just so you know; I plan on staying young after this. No more MILFfantasies, okay?" Okay," he chuckles. "Anyway, it's not like you're actually older. It'sjust a guise." That's true. But still...it's going to be embarrassing walking aroundlike this. And we certainly can't be together in public." No," he says, kissing my cheek. It'll be our little secret. No-onewould believe you're really my age anyway." That's true. You do good work. Still, at least. I initially accepted you because I could not refine this Black Core and learned from Martial niece Zetsa that you, somehow, claimed to have a similar stone in your dantian. It is shameful of your Martial father to admit, but I asked for big brother to allow Martial niece to bring you over so I could uncover the mysteries of the Black Core". Kartius added. "Unfortunately, the Black Cores seem to have their own will, and cannot be refined or taken to the dantian like regular Earth's Core ....