" Like your aunt, Theresa," said Alice."Right. Most of them can't live with their husbands having sex with other women. They are suddenly alone, with ...no attachments. They latch onto the priesthood as a new life."Single women, like me, freak out when they see how much power over people you goddesses have. I sell the priesthood as a way to control them."This also works on some men, but most need monetary compensation. I told Ed, for instance, that his new job would still be security, but with. "Thank you for sharing this with me, B." No... uh, no problem… T." Brandon said with a sigh. And with that Tegan rose to her feet and exited the room to see if the bathroom was free for her much needed cleanup.Outside in the hall the first thing Tegan noticed was that the shower was no longer running. At that moment the door opened and Sam emerged from the steam with a towel slung low around his waist. She froze, knowing there was nothing she could do to hide her current facial decoration, but. “She was one of my pupils,” I carried on, “seven years ago. Now she’s a hairdresser and she’d love to help us.” Bridget is a beautician too, but I was taking one step at a time.“You mean, you ... you...”“It was seven years ago, and she was seventeen. Now she’s a married woman and a friend. Only a friend. But in any case at fifteen you can’t expect to be my one and only, alright? I love you, but not only you. That’s natural isn’t it?” I let a slightly definite tone creep in, to pre-empt the. Only three aviators would be represented, and five aquatic species.And all were, without exception, herbivorous. The humans had known from the start that there'd be no realistic possibility of taking carnivores; there'd be no way to keep them fed and still maintain adequate stock of the others who were their natural prey. Population control of the herbivores with no natural predators, they'd originally thought, wouldn't be a problem with the Edenites present to thin their ranks, but now..."I.