The neat little old time hardware store had a toy train layout set up on a cute diorama in the front window. When David took too long in checking out ...he trains, Holly tugged him by the arm. ‘Come on, you’re too old for toy trains, Mister,’ she laughed. The evening sky was darkening and without a cloud insight, a few stars were making their appearance. As they headed back toward the parking lot, David paused under a streetlight, took her arm and pulled her toward him for an embrace. She rested. "Kate please," Megan telling her friend to cool off."So you're sorry. Well ok that's cool that you come all the way here to say you're sorry. Well to be honest with you ladies, I am just tired. I am really really tired. So Ivy if you really mean what you say and that you now care for my feelings, then this means that I can go back to sleep!!" Charles spoke in a tired tone.Charles was about to close the front door but Ivy put her boot by the bottom of the front door."Hey listen Charles. I really. . knit?”She raised her eyebrows at him, and he shrugged.“Well you can’t have been a soldier all your life. What did you do before you joined the military, back on Borealis?”“As a kitten I played with my siblings, as all kittens do. When I came of age, I joined the military. After I had proven myself worthy, I was sent here, and I underwent integration training in order to serve the UNN on behalf of my Patriarch.”“Hang on, how old are you exactly?”“Nineteen.”McGregor was surprised. He had never. I was more detached from my own body. My awareness was of the oneness of everything, and the first place I felt hunger was when I saw it in the eyes of others.It began a fascination that led me to learn about their appetites, not only for food, but for beautiful things made of gold and silk, for excitement, for status and for sex. In trading my ascetic existence for one driven by human desires, I first became aware of perversity. It was my deliberate decision to turn away from that which was.