“I will wrap her so that doesn’t happen and nobody here would say anything-” I started to say and Christof pointed to my sleeping daughter.

I took a different tact. “I’ll put her on my chest to sleep. Is that better?”

“You Like to sleep on your side,” Kein informed me. “In the middle of the night you turn on your hip.”

Strangely observant, but it was still true.

In an attempt to find a solution I offered up the idea of a crib, but that wasn’t how Nu-reeh had said to sleep. Instead, Christof and I built a barricade of blankets between Damien and Hannah. I could only imagine what the baby books at home would have said about doing that.

We lay down in our spots and my men’s breathing evened out very quickly. I lay staring at the ceiling and thinking. So much ran through my mind, I didn’t know where to start.

In the days I’d shared a bond with my family, I had thought whatever they did. With that compulsion gone, I could think clearly. For the first time in ages, I felt normal.

through my head. It had been strange, stressful, and wonderful all at once. Parts of it were stranger than others, parts of it more stressful. I refused to think of the day my daughter would leave, that would break

Damien had been ready to decapitate the man he was holding. It hadn’t mattered

‘s L I B R

because he wanted to, though. Damien and his

when I realized. Nu-reeh had made them stop. That collective consciousness that pulsed between them; she had enforced her will on it. My men did not know. They weren’t even curious about their sudden change

my sleeping daughter and understood. The women here could control the men completely. It

over the mind of her father and examined his memories. I didn’t control his dreams, she did. I was just

bothered with all the pretense. They could have the men just line up and

and make their own decisions. Nu-reeh

the men, they just had better things to do. It was both shocking and terrifying in it’s

although I should probably ask Nu-reeh

not tell Nu-reeh I understood. She may kill

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