" You've got some spunk on your face," he said with a sheepish look. "I don't remember ever shooting off like that before." Tha's fine, Massa. I like ...wearin' yo' cum. It means I's yo' nigga."The phone beside the bed rang a couple of times before Brian answered it. "Hello?" he said. "Yeah... Oh, anytime now... Ok... Bye." It was my dad," he told her. "Mom's ready to go and he wanted to be sure it was ok for him to come up. I better get dressed." He thought a moment. "Are you s'posed to get. Apparently, I was in the hospital. It seemed odd that I should awakenthere of all places, but with a flash, all my memories from theprevious night came back in one great torrential flood of images. Istruggled in my bed and tried to get up, but I was so weak that I wasunable to do so."Thurston, thank the Norns. You're awake," a voice said from the left.I turned my head and found my mother, Brigit Steenberg, standing in thedoorway "How do you feel?"My mother is an Enchantress, a moderately. Katia could remember her recent big drunk just as well as Shaeta could. I only took one sip and I don't think they had that much. I was pleased with them and happy, until I saw Denac heading for the line up.My mates were not amused when I told them we needed to intercept him, but I held their feet to the fire and they came with me."Congratulations Carl, you are the first man I've ever known who had two mates," Denac said, as we came up to him.I thanked him and then introduced him to my mates. I. Kenshin, were you practicing?Kenshin: You couldn't really call it training. It's just exercising strict control of my ki so my body doesn't get rusty. But let's not tell the others about this.Tsubame: But Mr. Kenshin, of course you train your body and mind. You don't need to hide it--Kenshin: No, but I don't want to deliberately make it known. If I don't do this from time to time, my heart's condition worsens and my mood becomes dark. The sword, the fight--a swordsman is bound to these two.