And can it be so bad to be married to the King of Mercia?” “But he’s old, Hereward, older than you, even. Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that ...ou’re old. But his teeth are rotten and his breath stinks!” The Princess Æthelflaed was walking in the gardens of the Abbey at Wiltun with Hereward of Middletun. Hereward was one of the inner circle of King’s Men and a respected voice on the Witan – the Council – despite his relatively young age of thirty. He was fond of the young Princess. He had a deal. Meanwhile, all of the adults were making an effort to impart to the children that sex was not the only thing that adults thought about—especially, we wanted them to understand the obligation that their special nature put them under. This wasn't difficult, but it was important.The boys were approaching nine years old, so they were beginning to notice the pleasure that sex could bring to the soul, not just to the senses. They were not ready to understand that, fully, but we were working on. It instantly brought to his mind Barbarella and her adventures of free-lovin’ across all ends of the galaxy. Pink fog rolled from the inside of the craft and soon mingled with the blue fog, pierced only by the slow descent of a segmented landing ramp, its mechanical whirring breaking the silence of the neighborhood. In his meticulous rush to capture every engineering detail of the craft onto his paper for future studies, Julius must have ignored the sounds of his mother, Brandi, and two younger. To her all “ Pagan” things are Wiccan so when she asks me is that wiccan I can honestly say no. Then when she asks me what it is I tell her something ethnic, which is also not a lie but is an evasion. She occasionally asks me are you doing Magick and I say Yes. I will not lie to her.So to keep arguments to a minimum I do my thing when I’m alone. So what does all of this have to do with my youngest daughter? For Christmas she bought me a Heathen Key fob. I was touched by the gesture. She and I.