"And another thing," she said, "you don't have to just lie there. You can hold me. It'd be perfectly natural. We are in bed together, after all."He he...itated for a moment, then lifted his arm and put it around her, to draw her in closer. She laid her head on his shoulder and smiled up at him. "There, now, isn't this better?" As you say, my lady," he said.She sighed. "You're hopeless, Jordan. We need to teach you to be a real human being." If my lady insists," he said, staring straight. Hopefully, there will be a lot more presents for you from now on,” he said with a wink. Immediately my fear returned. If he was buying me a gift for what he did and planned on buying me more gifts for doing it again then I really was a whore. I wondered if I was no to the present if maybe he wouldn’t do it again but I was frozen in fear staring at my new toy. “What’s the matter baby? You don’t like it? I thought that was the one you wanted,” he said looking concerned. “No, I like it. I just. .. I lay in pretence sleep while daddy finished and slipped from me and left my room quietly.My endorphins flooded and clouded my head, and a sudden tiredness swept over me and I slept like a baby.I did not hear him re-enter my bedroom, just his weight on the mattress edge, and the welcome smell of coffee.'Daddy', I muttered in my dreamy state, the strong sunlight streaming through the open curtains, which he had parted, revealing my nudity as the sheets had moved and my father sat beside my naked. Herself as well. Mom, Dad and my sisters got me to Ship, and she finished the healing process.”“Oh, boy. Now we have some kind of ship that heals,” Dessie said while wondering if Arlene were stretching the truth a bit.Arlene hesitated for a second, then, “Oh, well, in for a penny and so forth. Better than that,” she said with a grin, “Ship isn’t just a ship. She’s a self-aware being who built herself after an alien race constructed her brain, gave her supplies and left her to create the best.