" How old is that?" asked Kendra."You should ask him," said the man. "I'm not really authorized to divulge museum information." It's my manuscript," s...aid Bob, a little peeved."Oh," said Jerry, who pushed his glasses back up on the bridge of his nose. "I was talking about the fragments, but I guess that's right, isn't it." He looked around, as if he were worried some "unauthorized" person might overhear. "Mr. Williams says they're at least five hundred years old." Well, they came out of a five. But I would like you to put on a little show for that couple. I want them to see Tova in action.”Without waiting for a response, Curie leaves the coitikin to finish her task and strolls over to the Toy Zone where a tall, blue skinned, horned creature waits patiently.“Hello, Yingshe,” she says, smiling.“That amulet you are fused with seems to do the trick,” the Setra says. “It keeps you well above the rest of us.”“Armera allows it, so I use it,” Curie purrs.“I can’t blame you for taking. We were going to have unprotected sex. I was going to be completely inside Morgan, on purpose. “From the front or from behind?” I asked.“I want to look you in the eyes,” she requested. “If this is our last time…”I was tempted to add, “And who knows if it is?” But that was a Who Knows. I needed to be a man of my word. The future will speak for itself, and our bodies will tell us when they’ve decided. In the here and now, we just knew that, whatever we were, we wanted this. Once we were in. And though he'd left out a few small details for obvious reasons, it was primarily about the somewhat estranged relationship he had with Becky in the first place, and then on top of all that ... walking in on her while she sat at his computer, obviously watching someone else doing the same thing, while she did. He had no idea of course that it had been more than one person she had watched, but even one had been unsettling enough. Mellissa listened intently, oft times trying to hide the smile on.