I thumbed the communications panel on my chair to life. “Jazz hands, What the hell is taking so long down there? If you are nipping at the solvent a...ain I’m going to take you off of relief rotation for two weeks. ”“Not a chance, Pig, I am trying to repair the damn damage those cockbiter rats did to the engine wiring. The fucking little beasties chewed through every light wire in the main fire control cabinet.”“How long before we have engine power again?”“Another day at least, we have over a. I mean, it is not....it's a lot of things," she said and I left it at thatAbout four o'clock Lauren said she was going up to lay down a while before getting ready to go out. She asked if she fell asleep if I could wake her at about six-thirty.I finished up outside and was relaxing in the house. It was after six and I did not hear Lauren moving about upstairs, so figured she fell asleep. I went up and looked into the room. I froze upon opening the door. She had gotten into bed nude and the. So, I missed the peace and solitude that I could find in the forest. Besides, I had done my best to be a good father to our little daughters. In a way, that also felt very wrong, since I knew that besides Elarinya and Miriel - names Fainauriel and I agreed together - I knew that I had more than twenty other daughters here, but not all of the mothers wanted me to interfere in their lives.It had been a week ago when Bellcauniel had told me about the difference between Elf and Human cultures:““As. " Do you think I'm an evil scumbag?" I asked grimly. At her blank look,I set my MCO employee ID on the table. There were several gasps ofsurprise as they saw it. "The MCO is paying my tuition here. You mightnot believe it, but there are some good people in the MCO who are tryingto fix things."With that I grabbed my employee ID card and got up to leave, but Danasaid, "Wait... I know, you can't really judge a person by their job...not all the time." She had a wry smile at that. "I mean, my.