“Follow the flow,” A’luhr suddenly said, snapping everyone out of their muted stupor. “Most of the fluids will be directly fed to the queen, s... if we follow those tentacles, we should be able to find her.” She gestured to some of the tentacles incorporated into the tunnel’s surfaces. Sarah looked closely and noticed that they had the recently absorbed bodily fluids flowing through them, all in the same direction. “Of course,” A’luhr continued, “Some of it is mixed with the Krinis’s nectar to. She was younger than Steve, he guessed her to be fifteen or sixteen, the bikini left most of her body bare and he had to admit that she looked great, definitely a very serious sporting lady or just a fitness freak. She coughed a few times and pushed the hair which have escaped her ponytail out of her face and looked up at Steve. Grey eyes and black hair, Steve just had to smile, she was gorgeous,“Are you OK?”She nodded and pointed at her leg,“Cramp”Steve understood, he knelt at her feet and. Not tired. She felt old, that was it. When she had tried to talk to Albert about it he had mocked her, said she thought too much, and had started in on one of those lectures about how his father and his brothers never lay round moaning when they had the Farm to run, and how that was the trouble with city people, and so on. To which she would usually reply that if his father and his brothers had been so damned smart and hard-working, then why had they all had to walk off the farm and come to the. ..”“Yeah?” the man asks, looking back up at the horse, his voice wavering slightly.“I wonder if you can help me with something.” He smiles warmly.Casey gulps. “Yeah ... sure ... What, uh, do you need help with?” He can see a slight glimmer in Jessie’s eye.The horse stands up and offers his hand. Casey hesitates, but only for a brief moment. Taking the hand, he is lifted to his feet. They come facing one another in silence. Jessie is just as tall as he is, just as muscular, and their pricks are.