... Mommy and Daddy. He's also going to have to know who his biofather is in case something goes wrong. Mistakes in the gene code still show up, especially chemical crosses that can't be accounted for." "I guess I'll have to be Auntie Dagmar." "Guess so. And Uncle Rael." "Uncle?" she asked, as if confused. "It's not going to be Daddy. Maybe it will be. That's up for the child's decision." Our conversation was interrupted by a banging in the back again, and Rael and P'nyssa came walking in, laughing like old friends. "Well," P'nyssa said, "It looks like we've got ourselves a willing victim." "Victim, Hell," Rael said. "I have wanted to get into bed with you since I was four!" That statement surprised me not in the least; when Rael was '4,' he was just coming out of incorporation shock as a full-grown adult. "So," he continued, "What did you two talk about?" Rael, you sound like a grandfather. "This and that. Mostly about what role you two would play in the child's life. |