They were best left alone.Julie knocked on the bathroom door - well, she tried to turn the handle and come in straight in as usual first - and express...d surprise that I had locked the door. I mumbled something about not being awake, but she was more interested in sitting on the loo for her morning wee.Then she threw me out while she changed her tampon - even after all this time together, she still didn't want me looking at her when she was doing that, in case I was disgusted.I'd tried telling. The next morning I wake up and I can't move or see anything. I start calling out to my wife and no one responds. I hear some music, but no one is there. After about 30 min which felt like 2 hours I hear the door open and I say" Baby what is going on why am I like this?" She doesn't say anything and keeps moving around the bedroom. I say did you not hear me? She responded I hear you but I am not going to answer. Once again I ask why I am like this, and she responded with" don't you remember what. We’re not only all pair-bonded, but we’ve depended on each other, risking our lives together. I can’t abandon them.”“Nice reflexes, but the choice isn’t up to you. There are millions of previously pair-bonded individuals fighting on the front lines, and others still bonded serving in support duties here on the home planet. Such notions of pair-bondings lasting the rest of your life are antiquated. You’ll go where you’re assigned, or you’ll be eliminated.”“I understand,” Al said, as a massive. ” she whispered. “But it can get better? It hurt awfully where you were pressing me at first.”“Do you think you could stand having that done a few times more if each time it isn’t as bad as the last? With it getting a little better each time?”Amelia closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “If it helps, then yes.”“That’s good, because when I pressed there, I could feel the scar tissue next to the nerve move a little, meaning it pulled away from the nerve a bit. Doing that relieves the pressure.