.. and then I heard distant singing.I followed the sound of the voices, feeling a strange urgency to reach their source as I hastened through the laby...inthine streets until, turning one more corner, I came to a huge square that was packed with people, all the town's inhabitants must have gathered here. The singing had stopped, and all was silent, no one talked, everybody looked straight ahead, towards the square's other end, in expectance of an event that I knew nothing about.Slowly I moved. I had an interesting conversation with Warren while Jay and I were waiting for our ride last night." Really?" The boy has got it bad for you. And doesn't think you'll go out with him in a million years."Sophia stopped. And said, firmly, "He's wrong about that." He is?" Yup. No need to surrender your right arm in a bet, Alison- -you were right. I realized it last night. That's why I want to talk to you. I'm in love with him. Great. Now what do I do?" I told him you were. And I told him to tell. But the first thing we will do is to find you something suitable to eat. Sue, please take this girl to the kitchen and feed her, but don't let her eat too much; otherwise, she could get very sick to her stomach."Sue led the girl to the kitchen for something to eat, and everybody else headed back to bed. Unfortunately, I knew that I probably had had all of the sleep that I was going to get for a while, because I had to find out everything I could about this group of slavers that Slave 13 had run. She then started to explain that her breasts were developing, her hips were flaring, and her uterus had started producing an egg every twenty-eight days in preparation to reproduce…to bear children. The way she phrased it women were certainly an essential part of human creation. Her monthly periods were specifically for making babies. Her breasts were strictly there to feed those babies. Her hips widening and her uterus thickening were to carry the baby to birth. The way she explained it girls.