The Intrepid was travelling as before through the vast extent of the Oort Cloud where there were millions of kilometres between the widely dispersed c...lestial bodies. There was literally nothing to navigate around until the space ship arrived at the Anomaly."We should continue to make love," said Beatrice less than a month after she revealed her true self to the captain."Make love?" Nadezhda asked. She was astonished by Beatrice's directness and unsubtlety. How could she make love with her. We had such a nice conversation at dinner; I had no intention of missing the dancing. 'In for a penny... '" What did you talk about that was so great?" First, we talked about school. Then, he wanted to know my career plans. After we exhausted that, we talked about recreational interests for an hour, well past the dessert and coffee." Sounds like you talked about you. No wonder he was interesting."I continued to pack the bag for both indoor and outdoor possibilities. "He listens OK. We liked. Maybe if I saw enough of her I would get bored and be able to return to my work. Desensitization therapy I think they call it. Now if you really think I believed this crap that I was telling myself then you’re a bigger fool than I think you thought that I thought that I was. I think. No, visiting Vanessa was not going to return my shattered peace of mind, but it would probably give me a hard-on and I was willing to accept that as second best. The island was not a large one, so it only took. "Beth and Aaron had another glass of wine and went upstairs for another roundof lovemaking. The next morning, they attack the breakfast buffet withzest, stating that they had worked up a good appetite the night before._____As they drove back to Tallahassee, Beth pretended to sleep. She wasthinking about Aaron and his mom. She wondered was she being too hard onhim? Was Aaron what they would call a mama's boy? She thought back tothe relationship that Ken had had with his mom.Ken and his.