The only way that the male was allowed to claim the child as his own was if he had knock her up with his incestuous sperm. He only got one shot. If by... chance he failed at the inbreeding, the girl was given to the next oldest. In between each try, the girl got a two month break to be sure. Pretty much being monitored 24/7 by the two wives of the priest. If you were lucky enough not to get pregnant by any of the males, including the priest, you were allowed to find a husband outside of your. .And held it...He gasped for air. Still too chicken.He chastised himself mentally. He was a scientist. He could do this! Theydid experiments on people all the time, after all. What was one more?Of course, said the small voice at the back of his mind, humanexperiments always came after years of testing on animals, and even then,only if the risk was guaranteed to be ninety-nine point nine percentnegligible. This concoction hadn't even been forced onto a housefly, letalone a person.He sighed. What. Two weeks he had nothing to do but study diplomatic procedures and traditions; learning the financial status of the Union, the strength of their currency, treaties and alliances. The only times he had any interest were when he and Admiral Ceneu would go over the deployments of High Coven forces. They hadn't tried to take any ground while the Union forces remained in their staging areas, and with only a few skirmishes along the borders and on several planets, their was no major combat going on.. They embraced at the edge of the bed, and he picked her up in his strong arms. After lowering her gently to the fresh clean sheets, he moved to the end of the bed, where he began to massage and kiss her feet.Mari got up on her elbows to watch John kissing his way up every inch of her calf up to her knee. He repeated the same on her other leg, only his kisses continued past her knee up her thigh. She slowly parted her legs, allowing his kisses to fall on the inside of her thighs as he progressed.