.” Jess said.“She, uh, wanted some one-on-one time,” Nisha said to me.“Well, I’ve got too many girls to make one-on-one time every day,” I... said, leaning back over my shoulder to Nisha.“I know that,” Nisha said. “But I mean, aren’t Jess and Adelaide special.”And Talsy. Was my immediate thought. Then my brain ran off. There was Raylea and Sherry. Things were going amazing with Lidie. Nisha was proving to be a worthwhile get now that she was looking forward to fucking me in a bed and not in her HR. But, she'll never completely goaway, that she is part of me, and always will be. I just have to learnhow to use her for my own ends. The next time we get together, he wantsJaimie, and he also wants to talk to you." Honey, we've always known that she was a part of you, and wouldprobably never go away. And, he wants to talk to me?" He wants to know your feelings." I didn't think you wanted to talk about this yet." I guess maybe I did." Thanks."The following week was an interesting one for our. She was very good at making anything from non-living materials, so she was delighted. Hail got the Physics diadem with Lore and Nature. She had shown tendencies to predict weather patterns and loved water.We all agreed the Diadems had chosen well and Mikal was delighted that he would get even more help with the projects they had planned next. He had been able to upload his Spell Database to Rusty and me so their new pads could also access them.He had built in safeguards so the girls couldn’t. That homer was clearly gone before it had left the infield high over second base.Playing part time last year for the A's, I'd hit eleven homers in less than four hundred at bats. Not that bad. But I'd never muscled up on even one that had flown so far and so fast out of a ballpark as Zeke's cold-weather two-run dinger. And I knew I never would.For him, that power and distance wasn't even all that unusual. It must be nice.But wallowing in Zeke Taylor envy wasn't a big part of my character. I was.