It's difficult to admit you're flirting until time sufficiently detaches you from the memory.She was wearing a nightshirt and boxer shorts, I wore jus...t underwear. We were playing a sort of tug of war with the hotel's spare blanket. Creating excuses to touch each other and trying to contain our tipsy giggling.In hushed tones we held a childish argument over who would get to sleep on the cot and who would get the floor. A quick bout of rock-paper- scissors left her on the floor. She feigned. ' and stroked her hair as I waited for the sobbing to subside. But while I stood there cuddling her wonderful warm little body, things started to happen. I was getting the most marvellous 'hard on' that I had ever experienced, my cock felt like it was going to burst. Mary looked up at me, the tears had stopped. An incredible look was on her face. She had obviously noticed the huge bulge that was trying to tear its way out of my pants and was threatening to cut her in two.'What! What is. No, no, I believe you. If you have magic, it's as much a surprise to you as it is to us. Perhaps we will find the explanation later. For now, I feel the need to go for a walk. Your m ... Theron, perhaps when you are done talking to Lady Sierra, you'd be so kind as to whistle or something?" Theron nodded, and Tomas sprang up and walked out into the night.Theron looked at me thoughtfully while we waited for Tomas to get far enough away. I expected him to test me, and I wasn't wrong."So ... tell. " Earlier we were remarking on how our colony started with a company of five hundred and has grown in a mere five generations to over three thousand. We accomplished it by encouraging procreation. We wanted to preserve the stability of the family, but we also wanted our genetic makeup as diverse as possible -- to minimize inbreeding. That, by the way, is the opposite of what the Galactics are doing -- though that is neither here nor there for this discussion." So we invented festival to justify.