HALF WAY DOWN I SAW TWO COUPLE'S WALKING UP ARM IN ARM,PISSED UP SINGING "I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY".AS THEY GOT CLOSE,ONE OF THE GIRLS(A SHORT HAIRED BLON...E) SAID "ALRIGHT MATE",JUST TO BE POLITE,I SAID" IM OK,THANKS,HOW ARE YOU ?.THIS ONE LAD SAID"WHY YA TALKIN TO THAT PRICK FOR".I SAID "WHAT YOU SAY",HE SAID"YOU HERD".THIS GOT MY blood BOILING !!!!!!!!!!!!!.I WALKED UP TO HIM,HE SAID WHAT YOU SAYIN' I NUTTED HIM,HE WENT DOWN LIKE A SACK OF SHIT,I TURNED TO HIS MATE,HE SAID " YOUR ALRIGHT MATE". .. EEEUW!I think he noticed. It might have been the clenched fists, the blood draining from my face, me looking around in despair or some other micro-expression. Or maybe the groaning tipped him off. At least his breath was fine.“Ha! You are so English! Okay, I let you go. Here, we do it properly.”He took one giant step back and extended his hand. He had to lean forward to reach me.“Hello Sir, how do you do?”I couldn’t help but laugh. I extended the floppiest hand I could muster and. She had been born a little premature, that one, and for reasons of health, they had to tie Melanie’s tubes, canceling the plans to impregnate her by every man there. The abortion of Jonathan’s previous, human body, had done real damage to Melanie’s uterus and made carrying to term more difficult. Having made it through this last pregnancy, they all agreed not to press their luck and to retire Melanie from the babymaking business.This left Janice, Nora, Monique, and Nina as breeders among the. Her face turned serious. "You're not sorry, are you?" she asked with sudden trepidation. "I mean, this is exactly what you were trying to prevent, isn't it?" Nae, I'm no' sorry," he answered. "I mean' wha' I said doon therre. Ye canna lie in sae grran' a place, i' crries oo' for trruth. I'm no' afearr' o' 'em any mair. Min' ye, I do no' like 'em, bu' i' isna needed tha' I like 'em." You said that in the nest," she remembered. "And you said it in ordinary Standard, too. Why? I mean, if you can.