." But we can't raise a child on the ship," she said, putting the words in my mouth. "It's okay. You can just drop me off at the nearest mudball, an... start looking for a replacement. I won't hold you back."I was getting irritated with her stupid self-pity, and I finally couldn't stand anymore of it. I jumped up from my stool and spun her around to face me. I looked her dead in the eye and told her if she interrupted me one more time I was going to pop her in the mouth."Listen, I have had. .. keep them alive,” I panted to Greta, my face flushed. I lowered Sven’s shoulders to the ground, holding his right side, my bedmaid the left.Her youthful face glanced up at me. “What? Are you ... going somewhere?”I sucked in a deep breath, my heart racing from dragging Sven back to the fire where the others lay trembling and quivering, the poison raging through their bodies. My entire body trembled, fear clawing through my guts. They couldn’t die.My family couldn’t die.“We’ll keep them .... We can create them in batches of twelve and activate all of them once they are all in place,” he assured me.We all set out then to begin marking our areas, but first I cast a spell to prevent around the stable to keep our scents from entering it and alarming the horses in there. The cats were already out in the fields looking for rodents.I transferred to the southern most edge of the fields and began to mark various things like trees, bushes, and rocks as well as the ground outside of the. So you’d come over whenever I was horny?’ ‘I was thinking that with the extra rooms you have, I could move in so I’d be here when I wasn’t in school.’ ‘And what do you want in return?’ ‘Well, for one, I like sex, too, as you now know. And free room and board and tuition.’ She told me what her tuition fees were and, really, it was pretty reasonable considering all my sexual needs, well, more than my needs, really, my wants, which were much larger, would be taken care of. She bent down and.