I resisted the urge to hug him. I wondered if he’d had family on his crew, and how he was going to make a living now that his ship was at the bottom...of the ocean. I hoped Cailan would compensate him in some way ... I realised I was missing the rest of the conversation with my wool-gathering.“ ... any new crew members?” Aedan was asking. “Anyone who signed on after we booked passage for Lady Anora?”The captain looked thoughtful for a minute. “There was, yeah. Kind of odd, actually; my galley. I agreed not to call you, but I called Julie’s Aunt Eleanor and got some advice from her.’ Evelyn looked surprised. ‘I didn’t know you knew her.’ ‘Julie’s talked about her a lot. She doesn’t know I called her but Mrs. Thompson was very helpful. When I described Julie’s aggressive behavior, she contacted a Psychiatrist friend of hers and got some advice. He said he thought Julie might be OK in a couple of days, but if anything happened, she gave me the name of another Doctor here in Vancouver. Of course, by now, they were all quite heavily pregnant, these wives of mine, except for Tara, who had already given birth to Lilith, and Eve, who as a demoness was able to induce her labor early without any fear or distress. She delivered just three days before, bringing a little hybrid creature with nubs for horns and a pointed tail. Not to mention bright red skin. My demon son was awarded the name Cain, of course. Why the hell not?“Are you glad that we stuck out as long as we have, delaying. There was very little wasted space and the ship had millions of years to be developed, even before the Earth was discovered, by the Tandra.Thinking of the wet navy ship again, Charlie visualized the vessel and the computer spotted it in a second, sailing at night in the Pacific. Through the Tandra satellites he saw fighters now and again taking off or landing, as they went about their duties. A white luminescent wake marked where they had been. He felt happy for them to be so close to their.