”“Help!” Caleb mock yelled. “Somebody stole my little boy!”“DAA-aad,” Noah complained. “Just because I’m little doesn’t mean I hav... to be stupid!”“I love you, Kid,” Caleb added softly.“I love you too, Dad,” Noah answered sincerely.“What do you think of all this?” Caleb asked.“Shandi Walcott thinks this is a natural progression. I think she’s right,” Noah promptly answered.“I don’t understand! What progression? What does she think?” Caleb stammered, astonished and confused by the answer.“Humans. " I revealed."What about you. How are you doing, Mark?"I looked over at Pat and shrugged. "OK, I guess. I'm busy enough during the day that I don't dwell on it, but... at night... well..." my voice trailed off."Loneliness is an ugly state, Mark. I know that from experience. It can eat at you. I still feel it now and then." she said sympathetically."We've never been apart; even for a day. Except I guess when the kids were born and she was in the hospital. I didn't have to travel and when there. They let me take a closer look and I could feel them huddle behind him. I could feel there breath on my neck as they pretended to look at juke box from behind me. I was so turned on knowing they were checking my arse out as I bent up and down looking or pretending to at the juke box. Just then my BF came out of gents, his face was a picture when he saw us like that but he said nothing. I then took my shot and carried on as before.By now I was very merry and turned on. I started to tease John. Their marketing material may be bright and glitzy, but everyone knows what their real trade is: Sex. Specifically, sex with alternate-dimensional versions of popular celebrities and fictional characters.These assets, as TransDim calls them, are rarely willing participants in this which requires them to be restrained, but through a quirk of the legal system they are not considered people on your world and therefore have no rights. (Because of another quirk TransDim still makes sure that all.