January, 1950The day after the New Year holiday, Mother got an excited phone call from her broker, Janice Watson. Janice wanted to know if Mother want...d to sell one of her stocks; it had more than tripled in value since Mother bought it. Mother looked at me and I said, "Go ahead." Janice said that we should make a profit of over $1200 with this one stock. The others looked good, but she thought we ought to hold on to them for a while. Janice also recommended a couple of other stocks and Mother. Madeira had made no decision yet about introducing technology into the world at large. Although the effort was proving somewhat onerous, Madeira's sailing boats were being kept carefully out of sight.It had been a defining transformation over the last five weeks, watching the city and its people-like gods. Surely so many pure gods could not live together in peace. Hannibal was one of the first of his party to decide that what Megan Lopes said was true, that these gods were also people, gods. As their tongues lashed, their bodies pressed together, warm flesh against warm flesh. After the kiss was over, Maude rolled Eileen onto her back and began raining soft, teasing kisses everywhere on the woman’s slender body. Her hair caressed Eileen, a silken touch that soon had Eileen writhing and straining with need. A soft hand combed through Eileen’s excitement-dampened pubic hair, then moved to the puffy lips of her vagina. Eileen felt as if she would explode as soft fingers gently teased. “Three days ago, I sent two teams down to EL Paso del Norte to pick up and deliver the two prisoner wagons you ordered.“The masons finished the first cistern last week so it’s ready for water when John and his drilling crew hit water. John hit water at fifty feet but kept drilling like you wanted. He’s down to one hundred and fifty feet and beginning to worry that he needs three times the number of drill heads he has; so expect him to talk to you about that.“Work started on the second cistern.