You might get heavier, but it will all be muscle.”The next day she knew he was right about not gaining any weight. By supper she was so sore she fel...t like an old woman, shuffling along.She’d had to use the salve again before going to bed the night before, just so she could get to sleep. Now her still-raw thighs seemed like mere discomfort, compared to her arms, abs, and rib muscles.They’d worked with hay most of the day. He had traded beef for hay to another rancher in the area. That rancher. They found a table hidden by one of the planters from Jenny and the girl but separated from them only by vegetation. Quickly they learned what the problem was: The girl had found that she was pregnant and her boyfriend didn’t want to marry her. He wanted her to have an abortion instead, but she really didn’t want to.Jenny told the girl that she had organized a little support group for unwed expectant mothers. There were three other girls in it, as well as several others who had been in that. Even if they had been under eighteen at the time, considering the fact that her sisters had been using her as a sex toy before she was Alice's age, it was no wonder she never even knew there were ramifications to what she and Alice did."I'm sorry, Master! I didn't know! I just wanted you to have another slave! I thought that would make you happy!" Holly cried, overcome with guilt and shame that she had caused her master trouble."I never wanted another slave! I just wanted to be with you! You're. We've been observing a herd of wooly pigmy rhinos." Cool! Friendly?"Mark laughed again, "No, I wouldn't say so, no. Their ancestors were rather ornery critters if I remember, and the children are just as cranky. We finally had to raise the ship a hundred meters to get some sleep last night, to stop being rammed." Sounds fascinating!"Oh, it is! Being an explorer is the most interesting job in the world. It has to be..." Mayoni heard Mark sigh over the phone. "Something strange happened to Earth.