“What are you, a wimp, Uncle Bill? Is that the best you can do? You didn’t hurt your hand, did you?” Beth teased. Mary giggled at her s****r’s... goading, her hand already working between her own outstretched legs. I reached up high in the air, and brought my hand down on her vulnerable rear end with all the f***e I could muster. “Ouch!” Beth responded, “Now, that’s more like it!” I repeated my vicious smacks, bringing my rigid hand down upon her soft flesh time and again, and she continued to. When a Lord passes, his crystal goes to another. In many cases, that person is his heir and successor, but sometimes the Lord is not as strong as another, and the transfer is not ... planned.”“You mean he is deposed,” interpreted Jack.“Remember, Lord, the crystal gives great power and only a strong hand can wield that power. Not all heirs have been strong.”“So, what does that have to do with Senator Solana?”“When the crystal passes to another, the concubines of the first Lord are released from. What galaxy is that in?”I didn’t want to give these guys any idea that we were from Earth, so, since I’d read that the Andromeda galaxy was like millions of light-years away, I said, confidently, “The Andromeda Galaxy.”His scrunched up face ‘unscrunched’ and his eyes were like Moon Pies.“We have heard of that galaxy! We have sent probes there, but, the distance would take us many generations to travel to. Do you require the use of cryo-stasis to make such a journey?”Ahha! I looked at him like. “What were you doing?!” She put up her hand, “No, what were you doing with him?” She shook her head to get the right words out. “Mom … why? Why, mom? What about daddy?”“Fran, listen to me, please.” Erin had her hands firmly on Fran’s upper arms to make her look at her. “I wasn’t cheating on your father.” Fran began protesting, again, but Erin continued, “Your father knows.”“He knows? He knows you’re fucking that guy and he’s okay with that?”Fran sighed deeply and Erin smiled as they.