That was becoming a sight I was sure to see and, god help me, I was starting to need that image to get my day started.What could any average father an...d man do in such a circumstance? Hell if I know. I did try to do what I thought was right. After supper one evening, I knocked and entered my daughters room. I was feeling stern and wanted to get this ridiculous "flirting" to stop.What a fool am I.Tania sat up when I closed the door behind me and smiled hugely, ignoring her homewore on the bed. Not all the pregnancies will result in sons, only the first one is guaranteed to do so: and there is a reason for that. When the woman who bore the babe dies on her 111th birthday, or sooner in some cases, her firstborn son rises to fight the current ultrabeast. If he wins, he becomes the new Ultrabeast: if he loses, he dies: and this is why it happens after his mother is dead, for Gaia understands that no mother wishes to bury her children. When a concubine of a Ultrabeast turns 70 years old. "We've already told your little brother this but he didn't seem to get it. So now, we'll tell you. You seem to be the smart one in the family so maybe you'll be able to grasp this. If push comes to shove we will eat that eighty million dollars and destroy Intemperance forever. We will do this without hesitation in order to avoid setting a precedent. Do you know what a precedent is, hon? Did they go over that term in whatever rural law school you attended? If we renegotiated the Intemperance. ’ Tina asked me if I was staying at the motel and I told her I didn’t make a reservation. I wasn’t even sure I was coming to the reunion. She told me her daughters told her to get a room, they didn’t want her drinking and driving even though it was only ten miles. I said my goodbyes to the people around me and Tina walked out to the lobby with me. We looked at each other and time seemed to stop. Tina looked very serious at me and said, ‘Jeff, do you want to come to my room?’ ‘Are you sure about.