I was done. I was just ready for it to be over and for him to leave. I was so exhausted. As if reading my mind, he said, I know youre tired, Good Girl.... Daddys almost done. I was confused when he backed up and pulled out of me. He got off the bed and gingerly flipped me over onto my stomach. He lifted my hips so that I was on my knees with my face buried into the comforter and my ass towards him. I just let him move me how he wanted and hoped that he meant what he said about this almost being. By his side sat a benign, motherly looking womanlooking. Olaf strode down until he was before them and then slowlykneeled."My Lord, I kneel before you. Ready too be punished for the crime that Icommitted."Odin, (for that was the great man before which Olaf kneeled) sat andpondered long. "It is true warrior that the striking of one of mymaidens is in itself a crime. Yet that fact that you wounded her was notentirely your fault. A Valkryr is invulnerable to the blow of a mortalman so long as she. Get your things together and travel twenty miles north, northeast, or east from this point. Never come closer. You will be shot on sight. Do you understand?"Ted mumbled something. Bennie looked at him and said, "The answer to George is either yes or no. If it's yes, you can leave. If it's no, you can die."He shouted back, "Yes, I understand!"Bennie looked at Jeff. "What's your choice?" I'll leave with my brother. We won't be back." I shoved him away from me with distaste.Bennie, Robby, and I. Now, seeing her sucking her thumb in the womb, I was more than willing to take a chance, more than willing to deal with an imperfect, doomed child.God, in His wisdom, rewarded our choice with a perfect, beautiful child. And two other, perfect, beautiful children. So perfect, so beautiful, that they often took my breath away.Not that my wife, Belinda, and I never had problems. Far from it. As wonderful as our children were, I had a big problem with being displaced from #1 to, eventually, #4 in.