Thatyou would have expected to do the same in his place. That you hadaccepted that acceding to courtesies offered to women was part of whatyou had to ...o now, and even then you have the option to veto thataction," he said. "Even now that you have already taken these steps youare still the one who is setting the pace in your relationship." You said that you have been doing as your parents have done with Derekwhen you cook in the evenings now," he said."Well yes," she said. "Why wouldn't I do. We arrived at another one of those former parking lots to find 12 Erglets with three Grampits. Somebody must have wandered in since the scouts visited the place, but this was not enough of a change to make a difference. Dammed if the demons didn’t act with pure disdain toward us. A force of 100 humans would certainly have upset me, but the demons refused to take us seriously.We seemed to ignore the demons as we began to form our circle. We were about half-way through our encircling maneuver. Our college exams were over by Thursday, the 18th of December, and we were off from classes until after the first of the year. Most of us again returned to the Third Reality. Another two weeks had passed since our last departure. We spent our Christmas and New Year’s break from college there. It was still February there when we left again.The Surveyor had delivered a number of the new survey plats for some of our properties, but he hadn’t finished all of them. I had acquired the latest large. In retrospect, she could see where she might have changed the way people looked at her, but Jessica had been her friend before all that. She knew she had never influenced her, even accidentally, because she had liked Jess just the way that she was and wouldn't change a thing.Leia had felt nearly her whole life that she didn't fit in. Too white for some people, too black for others, and no matter how much her parents loved her (and each other) they couldn't protect her from the people around.