“Mama knows that,” Kennedy reminded her.

Still, this was quite an interesting and distracting conversation. Dara continued to explain how creatures developed and grew sometimes wandering into portals and being deposited in different realms. Some creatures on this world still resembled their Earth ancestors. Women here actually vaguely remembered the giant asteroid that hit Earth and nearly destroyed it. Something about that occurrence had closed many portals, but not all. Things still came and went freely for many eons after that.

“Dinosaurs, Mama,” Kennedy said happily, “still exist in a form here.” Eve interjected and told me some women even surmised that the portals had shifted the living cells around that originally had seeded both Earth and Pateria. There was no proof of that, but it was a theory the scientists sometimes played with. It was hard to tell because the portals had allowed creatures to come and go so freely between the worlds for so Long.

I wasn’t crying anymore and just sat looking at my girls. They had done quite a wonderful job distracting me. I had not even noticed as my men came and sat on the bed around me. Christof sat next to me and looked at our daughter on the pad.

“You were deceitful, Daddy,” Kennedy said harshly. “You should have told Mama what you were allowing to happen. Family does not act that way.”

He agreed with her. It had been wrong and they were ashamed. They thought it would be better to just let it happen. There would be Less stress this way. I had been so upset when they bred me last time. My men worried about the sadness affecting me again.

secrets. Mama can deal with the truth. What you did is not protecting her; it only hurts her more. She

me as less than them. They thought

‘s L I B R A R

this to me,” I said looking around at

be. You all have

from me and looked

he said softly. “We didn’t want you to break again. The children make you happy. We hoped when you had the child inside of you, you would

head as I looked

sadness is normal,” Kennedy intoned from the pad in my

all. Make her stronger by giving her freedom. The way you men have been trained is wrong.

I was fairly certain they did not. Our relationship was still so new, nothing like it existed here, there were bound to be mistakes and misunderstandings. My men just

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