Your knowledge of poisons should really have made us think a bit more about it — we have heard over the years references to super soldiers, genetic ...utants and so on — but I suppose we were too busy surviving and then improving ourselves; but had you noticed how events seem to have almost always worked out for us?" I had noticed, Morg, but some people are just lucky; or are you telling me we have been making our own luck?" Julie asked rather slyly.Morg sat a bit straighter and stared at his. "Oh, Rob, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to..." No, little one, it's not you, I mean, you didn't do anything wrong." I looked at her and kissed her again, "I just now understood something, that's all. It's like you ... she ... I had her trapped, trying to hold on to her, and you just helped me let go, and now she can be at peace, too. I just needed to realize that love is forever, but sometimes it means letting go, too, and that I was hanging on to a dream that I should have wakened from a long time. "A hell of a sight bigger scale, John," she said. "What are we going to do, build some sort of massive biosphere in a desert somewhere? And even if we could, how could we guard against leaks? Even the tiniest leak could be disastrous. I mean, the Eden plants propagate mainly by airborne pollination, as I recall. All it would take would be for a single spore to escape and suddenly there's a whole alien population of plant life trying to take over the Earth without any of Earth's native species. ” The mental part of this exercise was all part of the fun for her, and it provided him with something to consider as he gripped the bar.She delivered three more blows in quick order, hoping he might not be able to take the pain of the first six coming so fast and centrally located on his ass. “Four, five, and six weren’t so bad now were they?” She had a mocking tone now, but he barely heard it. The last three lashes had blinded him with pain, but he held on tight to the bar. When his mind.