“I’m sure that wouldn’t be valid!”Later on, we’ll conspireAs we dream by the fireTo face unafraidThe plans that we’ve madeWalking in a win...ter wonderlandA few of the other guests had started to gather around, listening to me sing, and when I finished, there was some muted applause.“Keep playing, Will,” Alexa said.I turned to the next song, ‘Let it Snow’, and played that, then ‘White Christmas’, ‘Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire’, and then one of my all-time favourites, an Australian Christmas. Could you please come over and help him out? Pretty, pretty please? I would be ever so grateful. She breathed a few more quiet words that Mark couldn’t pick up.” How was that, Daddy?”“I give him five minutes before he breaks the door down. He only lives ten miles away. Was he breathing heavy when he hung up the phone?”“I don’t think he hung it up, Daddy. I heard a thump, I guess when he dropped the phone and now I hear Grandmother calling him. Should I hang up?”“No, why not stay on the line and. I’m sure I must have sounded strange when I first began talking to others, but at least it was a start. It was also how I got my name and why I gave Adam his name. We were going to be the first of our species on this planet and from us would come all of our civilization. Just like the story of Adam and Eve.”“That’s what I don’t understand, how were your scientists planning on creating a new civilization here with only twenty four individuals.”“We were eighteen females and six males. It was the. I couldn’t take anymore, I screamed aloud and tried to roll off her lap, but she caught me with her arms and hoisted me over her left thigh while she wrapped her legs around my legs. With her left hand, she firmly held my right wrist to my hip and resumed spanking me hard over and over. All the while I screamed. This was not at all what I thought it would be like. Tears started streaming down my face.“Stop!” I could barely muster out. I screamed, “Please!”A quick “Shh!” was all she responded.