Most important is that I can trust him to stop whenever I want." About then the phone rang and I went to answer it. Our folks had run into another cou...ple they hadn't seen in ages and decided to get a room at the hotel that was hosting the event. They just wanted to make sure everything was OK and let us know not to panic if they didn't get home before noon tomorrow.I passed Heather the word and tried to get the conversation going again. She'd never let her hair down like this before and I. ‘Normal’ people treated them with fear, disgust and disdain, most likely because humans fear those who are different from them. This all changed when it was publicly acknowledged that the Seattle Incident had been the cause of the special radiation that had mutated carriers of various genes, and gave them different abilities, or in some cases, combinations of abilities, and this disdain turned to either outright hatred, or absolute shock and awe. I personally just believed them to be the same. That spark of self-knowledge made him shudder at the possible consequences.Almost on cue, there was an uproar in the main room of the tavern and the merry sound of musicians starting up as though some entertainment was afoot. Simon was relieved to be distracted from his gloomy, introspective mood, and made his way through to stand in the doorway to watch what was unfolding.Some benches had been hastily put together to form a makeshift stage or catwalk. As a young woman was helped up on to this. He sat as if paralyzed, unable to believe what he had read. * * * * * * * * Dr. Martin Holder, the brightest of the medical students in his year to graduate, ‘A promising young man,’ his professors had said. ‘Have a good life,’ she had written, but until the moment of reading the letter a good life had been centred around Melanie and their future together. Even more devastating was that she had met someone else, someone she must have been seeing even while…’Dear God, only two nights ago we had.