Previously the aliens' appetite to learn as much as they could of virtually all disciplines had been voracious; they asked endless questions, absorbed...the answers with the full power of their collective intellect, and returned with yet more questions and more again.But following Zo and Hill's wedding the flow of questions had bit by bit slowed. The natives remained as cooperative as ever about helping the humans with their own acquisition of knowledge about both themselves and their planet, but. I was there to replace my aging mobile phone. So was she. Mine was two years old. Hers was less than that and, "so out of date," she grumbled. Obviously, it was time for her to get the latest Apple phone. She had to have the best and the latest.I could have lived with mine a little longer. After all, mine was state of the art only a short time ago. The "best" is a relative term. The "best" has a short lifespan.I apologized to her when we inadvertently bumped into each other. "Sorry, I didn't. "Oh darling, you should see yourself! You look positively wonderful."He was prettyzoned out. She slapped his face again, putting all of her considerable strengthinto it. It took two more blows before he began to refocus. But what the hell,she was enjoying the feel of his skin against her hand! She gave him a dozenmore slaps, then slammed the palm of her hand squarely into his nose for goodmeasure. It crunched satisfactorily and blood trickled down into his mouth."Are youready to answer my. Unlatching her lips from Ariel's nipple, Dana stated, "He's right. We're going to have to focus if we don't want this to degenerate into another random orgy." And another orgy is bad because?" David wondered."Orgies are good!" Dana clarified. "Orgies are very good; it's the random part that's bad. We need a tightly focused orgy to help Joseph overcome the guilt he feels when engaging in incest. We all want to help Joseph stop feeling guilty, right?" Which, since Dana figured out I thought of.