He made some kind of snorting sound and continued to sleep. I let him be for a couple of minutes before I built up the courage to continue. I lifted t...e sheets and lifted the hem of the gown. This time it came right up.I'd seen pictures but never the real thing. The most surprising thing was the amount of hair. I'd been in high school for four years so I'd seen lots of girls in gym class with varying amounts of hair. I shouldn't have been surprised that a man would have a lot of hair down there. "People are in pain," she mused. She understood that. She had been there and still was so very often that it still hurt. She jammed a cigarette butt into an overflowing ashtray. Then she felt the tears begin as her narrow shoulders shook.On Christmas day Elspeth was sitting alone in her place above her closed coffee shop. On the holiday she and her other baristas were not working. The boyfriend had left once again without telling her where he was going. Her cell phone rang,"Hello," she. ”“I guess that is logical in some way.”“It is.”“By the way, how did you know what size stuff I wore? All of the underwear and socks and shirts are all my size.”“I told you, I’m smart and sneaky. I want to take care of you, so, I need to know stuff.”“Then your plan is to keep me here for a week and then let me go?”“If you want to.”“You think I might decide what, to move in here with you?”“Yup.”All of her answers seemed to be just so matter-of-fact. No sign of a doubt at all.“Where do I find. The readings indicate alloys that were abundant on Twenty-first century Earth. If the data is correct, it could be some sort of spacecraft, but if that's the case, then it's more than five hundred years old and..." And what?" demanded Fiona.Like a frightened animal caught in oncoming headlights, Ivanä stared at her superior and swallowed. "Although I've double-checked SLUTS systems, and they all appear to be functioning within her normal parameters, I'm still not one-hundred per cent confident.