"Goddess," he informed her, "I thought I would come up and personally congratulate you on quelling the unease of your subjects." He was referring to t...e unrest that the recent execution had created, and the 'Writ of Stone' that she (and Elaine) had created. "You have established yourself as a true overseer, and one who will ensure that the benign rule of the goddesses endures." You're the one who did the 'quelling'," she said, wryly grimacing at his verbose and grandiose language, "with that. ’ I held my smile and her gaze until she agreed. I had done it, she had agreed to let me take her out and so must have some interest in me. It wasn’t making love by the river but it was a start. After the movie we spent over two hours talking in her car, it was the beginning of a roller-coaster ride of rising passions. Each time we shared the pieces of our lives over casual conversation we grew closer first by inches then feet and miles. The more I learned the more I wanted to know and the. Henry Forster the 3rd, a direct descendant of Henry Forster, founder of Forster Industries had long shed the last vestiges of the common man and hoped no one would remember all the way back when Henry Forster himself, dirt and dust-covered, crawled through mining tunnels of half a dozen asteroids to dig for Ilmenite as a source for titanium dioxide. More by accident than the officially claimed genius, Henry Forster discovered that the associated Szomolnokite, a crystalline form of Iron II. .." It is," Jessica confessed. "And we're both booked in to see acounsellor about it sometime in the coming few months." Well at least you're going about it properly," Natalie said. "Heard afew horror stories from Elsa about T-girls who used to work for thecompany who self-diagnosed as transsexual and self-medicated withoestrogen. NOT pretty." I dunno if I'll be taking oestrogen," Jessica said. "At least... Notyet anyway. I still haven't told my parents about 'Jessica' and I'vebeen living as.