” I stood near her, a little shy with her soft body so close to mine, and tried to keep my eyes on the book when her tight green blouse showed her p...unging cleavage so near it. I glanced at the line of her neck, full and far from elegant yet beautifully physical, and followed the chain down to the ever-present Star of David cradled at the top of the swells of her breasts, then up to her eyes watching me with a twinkle.“No, you did make one factual error. Probably a late-night goof. This is that. We had a cuddle to keep warm and dry, he bent for a kiss then squeezed my hand. The cuddle made us both relax. As the rain poured down, even the ducks swam from the river into the more sheltered reeds nearby. He pulled me closer, around ten minutes passed. Eventually, the rain eased so we crossed the bridge looking at the torrent of waters flowing down the two weirs and over the falls. He saw a pool of still water and asked if I’d ever gone skinny dipping? As we made our way up the hill. When Dad and I came out with sevens and Mom and sis had high enough sixes dad had already seen the hand writing on the wall. He warned us not to show our cards unless necessary. He saw the disorganized start of protest by religious nuts and other crackpots that had started up right after the president's speech telling us that most of us were going to be eaten by the Sa'arm. The last few months had seen the start of an organization calling itself Earth First. Dad had been right again.That wasn't. Joelyn followed her older sister into my room and I could feel her nervousness. [Hi ladies.] I thought to them.[Hello John.] They thought back in unison.Martha sat down in that same chair while Joelyn stood nervously next to it.I could feel the younger sisters nervousness, and looked into her thoughts enough to realize that she had spent hours pampering herself for her meeting with me but felt there was little chance a teenager would want a fifty-nine year-old slave and her sixty-two year old.