" He tossed the book onto the 'altar' beside him. "You all want to be impregnated by a demon." Yes," Kaylee said. The others, his sister included, nod...ded. He thought about asking why, but what would be the point? He reached into his mind, trying to recall a certain set of runes. His memory was good in that regard. Having what he thought he wanted, he pointed to his sister."Sophia! Stand before me!" His voice was commanding. She was moving around the table before her expression seemed to realize. “That’s the...” Mrs West started to say.“It says here that this is the delta-epsilon form,” Suzie said pleased to discover that all of that algebra was coming back.Looking up from his sheet of paper, Sean said, “I got the first five problems without much difficulty, but this sixth one is a problem.”Suzie looked over and said, “The answer is eight.”“Oh, right. Stupid me,” Sean said erasing his work on his sheet of paper.Mrs. West said, “Ah...”“Hey, look at this stuff with infinity on page 105,”. She's already imaging what it will be like with three of us at her." She wouldn't do that. Surely." You can bet on it. More if they were there." Shit, what is she? A machine." Accommodating, I think is the word."We drove on in silence. I was trying to digest what Steve had said. I had been ganged up on and used for gratification, and I hated it. Now I would meet someone who liked it. Perhaps there was a difference. What I'd experienced was done to humiliate me. Was there another way to have. And I can't get another job," she cried. "I got fired and who needs to employ someone who did that. I don't know what came over me." Half the town," I joked, but the tears streaming down her face told me that it was an unappreciated quip. "Sorry!" She gulped and I touched her hand. "That's why I wanted to find you," I added. "I want to offer you a job. Working for me."She dropped her spoon in her coffee and wiped the wetness from her eyes with the ball of her palm, and shaking her head. "I.