They might be treating him as a living mineral lick. Many animals visited mineral deposits to lick away the nutrients and biometals in order to supple...ent their diets, it was common for farmers and hunters to leave out blocks of salt for their animals. Human sweat contained sodium and chloride, bicarbonate and calcium, along with other electrolytes and minerals. The Bugs might well be attracted to it, perhaps gleaning some nutrition from him that they could not obtain from their diet of honey. .."Mark sighed heavily. "You're right of course... All right."Kara gave one brief sob and nodded. A few seconds later, Anuhea and Va'an gave emotional hugs to Mark and Kara, and then the return team departed, sweeping their tracks clean behind them as they walked.Mark looked around at the house. "We need to plan. Let's clean our own tracks and return to the house." In a few minutes, the scene looked as pristine as the previous day. Mark sat down with his other three team members in the large. She was hanging all over this guy, and the only one who seemed the least bit reluctant to get it on was this Alpha Male.Maybe he was a Beta male. Jesus, he'd have to be gay, I was thinking, not to respond to the come-on he was getting from my beloved Brenda!Well, he was responding -- sorta. I mean, I could see he had a first-class boner growing in those slacks. Brenda could see it, too, and she wasted no time clamping her right hand over it and giving it a friendly squeeze. She might as well. “Yeah, yesterday you seemed kind of down,” Addy added, “Did you change your makeup or something?”“Nope,” I shook my head. “Just feeling good.”“Ooh, did you get in to that writing camp?” Addy asked hopefully.“No, I haven’t even sent in the application. It’s not due for another couple weeks.”“Huh, well you seem really good.”“I feel like Wonder Woman, incontrovertibly unconquerable.”“Yeah, rock on, girly girl!”I’ll be honest, my legs were still a little sore from the last run. I am still amazed at.