She was quietly sitting on Jake's bed, seemingly unaware of where she was. Then Jake, entering her dream, sat up and they saw each other.Elaine's firs...t impulse was to lash out at the errant girl and cause her to lose track of her location. That would, in effect, slap her back into her body on Earth. Something made her hesitate and she listened to the lovers talk."The Praetor taught me how to dream-walk," the hated earth girl was saying.'She found the Praetor!' Elaine realized, astounded. She. It was just a small sentence, spoken as Mom lay under me, the sweat from our coupling bathing us both, "I wish Danielle was here," I heard Mom whisper, almost to herself."What? Who?" I asked, not sure I had heard her correctly. "Danielle who? Why?" Nothing Rod, nothing," Mom quickly responded, blushing and looking away."Mom! What?"The story came slowly, Mom reluctant to talk at first but as she went on she became more emotional and voluble. "I had another baby Rod," she admitted finally, and. Oh shit she is putting it together I thought. “You have not known.... if Peter knew then he must have been there. She never mentioned being alone with you, your always with Peter when she is around.” she said slowly, forming the thought as she spoke it. “Yumiko... please don't ask me these things. They are between me and Peter. I know how clever you are and you are drawing your own conclusions without me saying anything. Please just be discreet. Okay?”She smiled gently at me and said “If I. It’s annoying. They also tell me I’m lucky I live with a girl like that and that never fails to creep me out. I need better friends. I felt the test tube in my pocket. Did I even deserve better friends? Living with Avery has left me with little privacy and therefore, few places to hide the cologne. Somehow it ended up in my backpack. It wasn’t there so I could take it to biological chemistry class tomorrow and use it on Monet. I put it there so I could keep it safe, keep an eye on it. That was.