" "Sounds like she could get brain damage that way." "Sounds like she could get brain damage that way." "Wouldn't surprise me," Nickolai agreed. "Anyway, she's as eccentric as he was. So when she had the key, she registered her intent to exercise his Right as executor. There were lawsuits and things. She was going against tradition, y'know... no child had been born with a living parent in nearly two hundred years. She won. Here I am." He shrugged again. "No big deal." "She won on the basis that the court couldn't take away her natural inclination as a woman to be a mother, right?" Jofuran asked. Nickolai nodded. "That doesn't make sense. She didn't bear you. Terrans are all tank-grown." Nickolai shrugged. "It doesn't make sense to me either. It's okay. I only have to put up with her during vacation times." "Like now." "Like now," Nickolai agreed. He smiled, then said, "Sometimes I don't think she knows what to do with me. |