At the last cabin, I drew a blank, I knew that there was onpart I was missing, but I couldn't think of it. I began tosay them in a whisper and tick th...m off on my fingers."Hummmm... we got the Vagina, Uterus, Clitoris, Ovaries,and... ahh, I can't think of it." Fallopian Tubes, but what you need is some brains boy."I turned my head and there was Ms. Sayler and here daughterwith looks of anger clearly written on their faces."Whoops, I think its past my bed time so I'll just..." Oh you're not. ? ?Okay that explains what happen on my last mission. Monkey Fist, Killigan, the Seniors and Motor Ed got weird and horny.? ?Kim?did they?well you know.? ?NO! I got away.? ?Oh good. Because if they did they would become addicted.? ?Addicted to me?? ?Addicted to having sex with you. But your body had changed too. Apparently you had something called the Aphrodite gene.? ?The what?? ?Most of the records come from a bunch of heroines in Delta. ”The sun grew warm as we made our way upstream. The water ran shallow over a rocky creek bed as birds flittered past. Not a few times the creek shoaled and we had to get out and pull the kayak over the rocks. We were soaked, either from the creek or just sweat.The boat finally slid off the rocky bottom into deeper water and I pulled my shirt over my head and dropped it on the kayak. Sherie smiled and raised an eyebrow. “You're pumped from all the pulling,” she said.I flexed a bicep and grinned.. Thank God for Bert's mother. Without that dear woman, deep in the throesof grief herself, I would have never made it through those firstdifficult weeks.This was, of course a far more difficult time than after Daniel attackedand robbed me. But unlike then, I never entertained even the mostfleeting thought of taking my own life. I had four other lives dependenton me, and I swore to myself I would do everything I could to continueto protect and nurture them.Not that it was easy. I should have had.