Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:20:18 -0500
From: Ron <wolfwalker2@verizon.net>
Subject: TEEP chapter 58

TEEP

Chapter 58

Edward walked out of his bedroom and went across the hall to see how Andrew
was doing in packing what he wanted to take with him, opening the door he
walked in and saw Andrew looking at the several large packing crates Kevin
had provided the other day with a pensive expression on his face. Sitting
down next to his brother and surprisingly, his lover, he pulled Andrew into
a hug, "What is bothering you Andrew?"

Startled, Andrew leaned into his older brother, "Nothing really, I'm mostly
packed and ready to go, I figure over the next few weeks I can start to move
the rest a little at a time."

"So why the glum look," Edward looked at the clock, Aaron's security escort
would be here shortly, they were going to keep an eye on him as he talked to
Toshi at lunch time, then after they were finished, he would hitch a ride
back with them to Prime, a nice relaxing weekend, the last before he had to
start classes again on Monday. For once, he was looking forward to school,
all the scruff courses were thrown out and he could concentrate on the
things he needed to know, to be the best leader he could for his people,
plus of course, the Alteran way was fun.

"Oh, I was just thinking, it is sad really, the way Richard was treated by
his parents, I mean he is family and here I am talking about taking weeks to
move everything and he had barely enough to fill one rucksack," Andrew
smiled at his brother before looking at the door, checking to make sure it
was closed before leaning over and kissing Edward. "At least I know he is
truly happy, and has the world at his fingertips now," laughing he shook his
head in amusement, "well I should say the universe now."

"Are you going to be alright?" Edward hugged Andrew and when he nodded his
head and smiled at him, he stood, "Okay, I have to go talk to father and
grandmother before my guard detail shows up, I will see you later tonight."
hand on the door handle he glanced back and smirked, "just so you know, I
plan to be first in line to help you release the need after you are
resequenced, I can't wait to fill you before being filled by you as the rest
of the Clan takes turns quenching the need."

Breathing hard at the image Edward's words invoked Andrew stared after his
brother as he left the room, "Damn, I can't wait," he whispered as the door
closed and he felt a need to rearrange things in his pants.

Having to rearrange his own slacks, Edward closed the door to his brother's
room and checked to make sure he had everything he needed, P.A.D.D.,
communicator and panic button watch all in place, he walked down the hall
and eventually walked around his grandmother's secretary and opened the
doors to her office and closed it behind him, startling his father and
grandmother who were working on something over the tea table.  "Father.
Grandmother, I was going to ask what the two of you were plotting secretly
the past week, but I checked your terminal usage and what you looked up and
noticed you were studying Alteran clan structure." Pulling one of the
antique chairs over so he could keep this conversation at a reasonable and
quiet level, he sat down and stared at them.

Letting her eyes flicker up to her first born son, Victoria sighed as she
sat back, "I would ask how you found out, but I fear I would find out you
have a higher security clearance on the terminal than I do."

Sitting back and looking at her grandson she finally relented, "Your father
and I have been working on a proposal that would give you the best of all
worlds, you would remain as King and heir to the British throne, while
allowing you to become Alteran and keep your relationship with Aaron and the
Clan."

"You see Edward, we knew you would do your duty no matter how unhappy that
made you," James smiled at his son, "We also knew that you truly want to be
King and the leader of our people. When Aaron mentioned about how the clans
were formed, the idea hit us, we have been doing a lot of research on the
clan structure, and what can and can't be done with the charter." Tapping
the paper on the table, "I would have to double check things with one of the
Shaolin or maybe Richard would be best, but I think we have come up with a
charter that would truly work." Sitting back in his chair, he looked at his
mother, "But we have run into a snag." Seeing his son staring at him he
sighed and looked to his mother for help.

"You need five individuals to start a clan, Edward," Victoria sighed as she
looked at the paper with all of their hard work, on the table.

Laughing, Edward placed his head in his hands before getting control of
himself, "Now I know why Aaron has been putting off the conversation about
having children with me, the lot of you thought about this around him and he
has been waiting for me or you to make the first move."

Alfred who had been released that morning practically skipped into the room
having more energy than he remembered ever having, or at least in years and
walked over to the safe, and after going through all the combinations opened
it, pulled out the crown he had retrieved from the Tower after their talk
with Aaron, before placing it on the table in front of Edward. "We truly
only want your happiness Edward, plus you don't have all the information; do
you recognize this?"

Edward picked up the crown and did not have to turn it much before seeing
the red diamonds, "Yes grandfather, this is the crown from your side of the
family, and it has the same red diamonds that Aaron's does."

"True, but what you don't know, as Aaron has been thinking about it after
making the discovery Wednesday, is," picking up the crown and pointing to
the largest red diamond, "Red diamonds are not native to Earth."

Edward blinked several times as the last bit of what grandfather told him
kept repeating in his mind, finally he looked at the crown as if it were a
snake, "That is not possible, you told me it has been in the family for
generations."

"We were there Edward, when Aaron touched the red gems they glowed, just
like his own crown does," James told him gently as he looked at his father,
"Also one last thing, as far back as records or verbal histories go, your
grandfathers family has never sired a girl."

Edward stared at his father and the crown, then at his grandparents before
shaking his head in confusion.

"We plan for you to wear this crown when you are coroneted and the world
will see these gems glow, if we have anything to say about it." Alfred
picked the crown up and looked at it before getting up and walking over to
the safe to return it to its case.

Edward glanced at the clock his team should be here ready to take him to
meet Toshi, finding his voice he glanced down at the paper and looked past
the first couple of lines of the charter, like the clan leader being
required and or allowed to be in a physical relationship with the head Clan
of the empire, Altare, and the fact a child would be produced between the
two clan leaders as the heir to Clan England. "Toshi, the heir to the
Japanese throne, we are meeting for lunch because he wants to discuss this
very thing," he set the paper down and got lost in thought, "I need to go,
we will talk more about this when I get home Sunday, maybe by then I will
have an idea how to respond."

Moving over to the door and stopping when his hand started to open the door
Edward glanced back, "The only way for that crown to get into our family is
through the Shaolin."

"Yes, Aaron confirmed that Wednesday when we were at the new hospital, your
grandfathers line comes from one of those that damaged themselves in a
search for a cure for the rest of their clan," Victoria told him softly,
"Aaron said this opened up other possibilities and he needed to think on it,
we felt this was one of the possibilities he was thinking about and we went
about seeing if it would work on our end."

"I don't know how much of the media campaign you have been following, but
the tide is turning," James looked at his son, "It is a good thing you
are.BI, soon the people will demand you marry into Aaron's family and if the
tabloids reports are true, have a son as soon as possible."

Edward rubbed his eyes and head, like Aaron did when he was trying to figure
something out, "I need to go before I'm late, Sunday.We will defiantly talk
Sunday." Walking out of the room and quietly closing the door behind him, he
had no clue on what to think, and yet his family was trying to give him what
we truly wished for.



"You sent for me father," Toshi bowed as he entered the private office of
his father.

"Yes my son, I wish to hear about your meeting with the King of Altare and
what conclusions and information you have learned after I left," pointing to
the chair Morimoto told his son, "Sit and share with me."

Taking the chair, Toshi was glad his father was not a telepath, "He is a
most amazing man, his very presence demands obedience, yet he is the most
caring person where his people are concerned. Not only that, his Clan is
truly loved and he is not afraid to show emotions or love to his Clan in
front of others, almost as if he dares you to say something about it."
Sitting back in his chair he went over some of the things he had learned and
found out, before looking at his father, "Ton passed the first test with
honor, and family can go up to Sol Station where he is staying for the
next.week, I think, we are invited to eat meals with him if we wish. I do
know his technology that he has at his disposal is so far in advance of what
he is releasing to the public that if we completely upgraded we would still
look like stone aged peasants next to them."

"Rolph, the Danish king's nephew and the volunteer for the Danish kingdom
was discovered to have cancer, by our standards incurable, with only weeks
to live if he was lucky," Toshi looked amazed, "Aaron pulled him to one side
and escorted him to the med bay, he called it, and personally performed the
surgery to start the process of curing Rolph, he will be up and walking
around next week completely healthy and cured for good, that ability alone
would be worth anything to our people and I have been working on a way to
gain closer ties with his kingdom, like the British did, he built one of his
hospitals in their country, I have a meeting with Edward, the Heir to the
throne of Britain at twelve thirty to discuss some of my suspicions and to
see if my ideas are workable."

"He is an honorable man, more so than most, he amended the agreement between
his kingdom and those petitioning for open immigrations for their people, to
include two new parts, as he truly has the best interest of those wishing to
marry into his family in mind," seeing he had his father's attention Toshi
smiled, "He will allow the candidate, if they feel a connection or love for
someone in one of the other clans, to marry them and count as completion of
the agreement or if the person is not a viable candidate or does not wish to
marry into the Clan, he will allow donation of genetic material so sons can
be created to count as completion of the contract, he also left open that
the possibility of the candidate to join his kingdom will remain open if all
that happens is a donation of genetic material."

Toshi thought about it and added, "He also left open that the genetic
material could be donated from any male in our royal line that would pass
their initial tests of health."

Morimoto smiled at his son, the truth was the King was a very honorable man
and it showed that he meant this deal to go through, "Good.very good, you
are right, such is the actions of a man of high honor. Did he say anything
about who had attacked him or what was done?"

"The leader of Iraq ordered the attack, and he used weapons that would have
killed the world," Toshi, seeing his father pale, drove home the point, "He
used germ warfare weapons, weapons that would have infected the Tuna and
then been carried into the world's food supply. He was merciful and did not
kill anyone while at the same time destroying the country of Iraq,
everything man made was removed in under one hour."

"Both the Russian and Chinese leaders were there and shared that there is
nothing left of the country, except half naked people as the weapon Aaron
used was not a weapon but one of their inorganic recyclers," Toshi sighed as
he closed his eyes and shivered at the thought of the devastation that
weapon could do to his country. "I do know from hearing it from his own
mouth he has lost patience with those that would attack him, at the same
time the UN was trying to drum up support for an invasion of his country, he
was removing the threat Iraq posed. I fear for those who try to attack him
next, there will, in his words, be a very large lake left over after he is
finished and innocents will end up dying."

Waiting until his father composed himself as they both had watched the
broadcast of the Dragon Lords revealing themselves to the world, Toshi
changed to a happier topic, "Our meeting was held at Sol Station and the one
wall of the conference room was a window that looked down on the Earth, it
was amazing to look down on the world of my birth, or to look in the
distance and see the huge dockyard where the new hospital ship was being
built."

Morimoto gazed out at the garden as he tried to decide which question to ask
first, "Did you find out what the British did to tie the two kingdoms so
close together?"

"Truthfully I did not, I have a few suspicions which I hope to verify with
my meeting with Edward today, I did find out a lot of interesting things,
but most of them I can not tell you," Toshi saw his father stare at him, "I
have a very valid reason, as if I do share with you what I have learned and
I am ever around one of their telepaths, it will get back, I was told
things, then told to keep them to myself."

"It is a test of sorts, I believe, and I have seen what one of their non
lethal weapons can do to a country and I will not jeopardize our country
with the possibility of it being used or even one of the more lethal weapons
at his disposal," Toshi shook his head, "I am sorry father, not even for you
my emperor will I share these things with you, I dare not." Seeing the
expressionless face staring at him, "I believe, if I ask for permission and
both of us go to his Sol Station or other secure areas, I may share what I
learned with you, he did not give me the option to share what he told us
with you, not like he did with some of the other information."

Deciding he would do the same, Morimoto relaxed, "What other information was
released then?"

"The fact that Aaron will be having a son in around eight months I think is
interesting and exciting, or the fact that as a country they hate wearing
clothes, unless dealing with outsiders," Toshi kept the smile off his face,
"Mostly things of that nature."

"Hmm.Please make a list of what you can share, and when are you going back
for the next meeting?" Morimoto asked as he thought about things, after
hearing this coming Sunday at two, he looked up, "Please ask his Majesty for
permission to speak of some of the things he has shared with you, I agree I
do not want to endanger my people with his wrath, but I do need to know."

Bowing and keeping the smile off his face, Toshi bowed, "Of course, Father,
it shall be one of the first things I ask Aaron before we start." Secretly
he was pleased, he had several more days and hopefully time to work on
Edward to get the answers to his suspicions, looking at the clock, he
quickly made his way to the area where the cars were kept and picking up one
of the faster ones, left the driveway in a squeal of burning rubber so he
was not late.

Edward looked round, this was the tea room Toshi had told him to meet him at
and he had yet to see the teen and his counterpart for Japan, sighing he
looked up at William who had miraculously been assigned to his Alteran based
guard detail, "Well, maybe he is inside, at least I hope so," he whispered
as he walked in and turned around after catching motion moving towards him,
grinning at Toshi who was out of breath he chuckled, "And here I thought I
was going to be late."

"Sorry Edward," Toshi panted after running up the walk, "But I got caught in
traffic." Moving to the hostess, he bowed slightly and asked for one of the
private rooms where they could talk, then asked for a meal to be brought in,
and it had to be by someone who did not understand English.

Following the woman with a serious makeup problem, as in she added so much
she ended up looking  like a doll, Edward glanced around as they were
escorted to the back side of the building before the woman knelt down and
pulled the door open for them. Edward followed Toshi's example of kicking
off his shoes and placing them onto the mat when it was pointed out to him
and stepped up into the meeting room and then down into a cushioned pit like
area with a low table. Glancing back over his shoulder as the door closed
and he saw two of the security detail take up positions on either side of
the door he looked back at Toshi, "This is the first time I have been in a
formal tea room like this, very nice."

"Thank you Edward, I asked for a light meal with tea to be delivered, it
should be here momentarily, we should be able to talk freely," Toshi smiled
as he looked at Edward, he had to admit to himself he was pleasant to look
at and he wondered what he looked like without clothes on. "Before we begin,
can I ask what determination was made on how much you may share with me, I
assure you and through you to Aaron that I will keep your secrets."

Edward stared at Toshi for a moment before sighing, Aaron was right; Toshi
wanted more than sex, and he was too smart for his own good, "I did talk to
Aaron, and he has laid some ground rules for this conversation, I will call
my escort in, you will swear and be confirmed by telepathic scan what you
learn will not be shared, to anyone without Aaron's permission.Ever."

Toshi stilled as he thought over the conditions and slowly said to give
himself more time, "I understand that to be quite painful."

Nodding, Edward reached into his pouch and retrieved the syringe full of
painkiller and placed it on the table, "It can be very painful if a telepath
has to dig deep, but he is here to confirm that you are going to keep your
word, and if it gets too painful he sent this," Edward tapped the syringe,
"it is a specially designed painkiller to alleviate any pain from the mental
contact. I understand the more willing you are for the contact to take place
the less pain."

Toshi eyed the syringe with interest, "You say that like you have never
experienced it before."

"No, I've never experienced the pain during shari." Edward trailed off as
Toshi snapped up to look at him.

Coming to a quick decision, Toshi looked at Edward, "Call your telepath in
then, I will welcome him in my mind."

Edward starred at Toshi for a moment as if gauging his willingness before
sighing, "William," he said, after extending his mic and tapping it, "He's
agreed." Placing the mic back up so it was in the stored position Edward was
not startled as the door they came in through opened and a barefoot William
walked in before closing the door behind him.

Kneeling next to the suddenly nervous teen, William smiled, "This will be
quick and hopefully not too painful, hopefully the most you get is a brief
burst like the pain from a sudden intense sun glare, if it is more than
that, let us know, the painkiller is here for a reason." Placing a hand on
the teen's face he looked him in the eye and prepared to deliver the lockout
Aaron had prepared, it would stop him from ever telling anyone the secrets
of the Alterans without Aaron's express permission, he was to administer it
if Toshi was sincere in his desire to keep their secrets.

"I have only two questions, and I want you to give me an honest answer, I
will be examining the thoughts behind the answer," William told him as he
brushed his mind against the teen's surface thoughts. "Do you truthfully
plan to keep the secrets you learn here today to yourself, letting no one
know what you learn?" following the thoughts, William was glad that the teen
did plan to keep what he learned secret and then after implanting the
lockout, he asked, "What do you plan to do with the information?" several
minutes later William sat back before standing and looking at Edward, "He's
telling the truth, you can talk to him, if you wish, safely."

Nodding his head, Edward looked at Toshi, "Do you need the painkiller?"
getting a negative shake of the head back in reply, Edward placed the
syringe back in his pouch and waited for Toshi to say something first.

Hearing a soft chime, Toshi stopped gazing thoughtfully at Edward and went
over to the small panel in the wall and slid it back before removing the
tray full of food then placed it on the table, before going back for the
other tray with the tea, sliding the panel shut again he looked at Edward as
he poured and sighed, "Are you sharing yourself with the Clan?"

Taking a sip of his tea, Edward looked at Toshi who was dishing out the
food, "That is an awfully personal question."

"Yes it is, and I must apologize for it, but it is the only thing that makes
sense, you spurned my advances, yet I believe you would have acted on them
if conditions were different," Toshi told him as he picked up his chopsticks
and as he went to grab a fork from the side he noticed Edward was using his,
and correctly too, "You have spent time learning to use our utensils."

"Spend enough time around Aaron and you will learn to use them too, and I
spend a lot of time in the Clan Compound," Edward shrugged before deciding
that it would be alright to tell him what was going on, after all, William
planted the lockout so he wouldn't be sharing this with anyone without
permission, "To answer your first question, yes I currently hold one of the
four spots for non Clan members to be able to share themselves as you say
with the rest of the Clan, the other belongs to Ichiro who belongs to the
Clan."

Raising an eyebrow Toshi looked at Edward, "belongs?"

"Ichiro is.he is submissive, I think Aaron called it 'Ukeru', in the old
culture, we don't have as descriptive a term as you do, it seems," Edward
sighed as he tasted the noodle dish.

"I see, then you are right, he belongs to the Clan," Toshi stared at the
ceiling for a few moments trying to think of a way to ask, "Edward, I must
apologize in advance, I can find no way to discuss this without being blunt,
you have sex with the Clan.the whole Clan is this the reason your country is
so close to Aaron and his kingdom?"

"No." Edward had been prepared for this one actually, and had asked Aaron
what to say, he had been told to tell the truth. "I am allowed to have sex
with the Clan as I fell in love with them and they with me, in the beginning
it started out as something totally different, but I always knew I had a
duty to my people." Putting his chopsticks down, he sipped the tea and
winced, "My cousin Richard is part of the Clan, my brother will be joining
the Clan tonight, plus I have donated genes and wish to have a son with
Aaron. But most of all it is love, love of me and my brother and cousin that
cemented the ties with Aaron."

"On one hand I am jealous as hell of Richard and Andrew, they will get to
have something I never will; on the other hand, they must pass their ordeal
to be an adult of the Clan, and I would not wish that on anyone, to hold
life and death in your hands, to wield that power by right of who you are,"
shaking his head, "no, as much as I am jealous of them and being able to
receive the gifts all Aaron's people have, that one thing makes me lose my
jealously every time, they will have a burden I never will."

Toshi stared in shock for a moment, so many new things, so many questions
answered, and so many created by the answers, "Is this a burden they are
required to take on themselves?"

"No," Edward replied as he pushed the food and drink away, "Aaron makes sure
before each of them goes too far into their ordeal that they know he would
gladly take it from their shoulders without thinking less of them. I've seen
him do it, and yet, each time it happens, the person who's test it is does
not back down; he accepts the burden. Each and every member of the Clan
lives and breathes the Clan motto, Clan Stranton leads, and others follow, I
have seen it, I have seen how every single Alteran would follow any of them
into hell unasked, I only hope one day after Aaron finishes my training I
will instill the same feeling in my people."

Blinking several times, Toshi sat back, this was not surprising really, it
went with what he had observed, "Tell me Edward, what is the possibility of
forming a Clan of our own and having Aaron recognize it as one of his?"

Edward laughed as he fell back into the pillows, "My grandparents and father
have been working on a clan charter, so that I can do just that, Aaron made
a comment to them once, as long as a clan gives him fealty and loyalty to
his crown, they are free to leave his kingdom and hold their own, his
planetary governors will be from the other clans," chuckling again, "I don't
know why I did not see it before, most of the other clans have more than the
bond of loyalty to Aaron, they have his bloodline in them."

Snorting he looked at his tea as if something to loosen his tongue was
placed in it, but in reality, he needed to bounce what he learned an hour
ago against someone, "My grandparents even have, as part of the clan charter
they are drafting, that the clan leader, ME," Edward thumped his chest, "has
the option of having sex with the leading Clan.Aaron's, and it also has a
provision that my heir to my kingdom and clan would be from a son with the
leader of the leading Clan, meaning Aaron."

Toshi was wide eyed at that admission, the more he heard, the more he
wondered why Edward was not jumping and grabbing that charter with both
hands, "Why are you hesitating, what else needs to be done?"

Snorting, "I found out about it minutes before leaving to meet with you, as
for what else needs to be done, a clan is a marriage, I would need to find
at least five more people to marry," Edward told him as he closed his eyes,
"not only that, think about it, Aaron's clan is one of the smaller ones I
think and he has seventeen lovers, and he usually has sex with each of them
daily, besides me on the weekends.  Hell, he kids us about the stamina of
youth, a measly three hours and we are asleep." Leaning forward very
serious, "If you look at a true picture behind the myth of the Satyr you
will see a picture of Aaron staring back at you, even his clan can not keep
up with him at times."

Toshi had been stunned once again, leaving aside the stamina, no wait a
minute, he told himself he needed to at least let this roll around in his
mind a few more times. After several enjoyable minutes, he slightly
shivered, "Let me be as blunt with you as I have been asking you to be with
me, the idea of forming a clan that is based on Aaron's excites me on
several levels, not only the smallest one of what it could do for my people,
or the fact that I would be able to have a son using their technology, but
more personal of finally being able to be true to myself. I invited you here
to be able to determine if it was possible you were in the same situation
and if we could find a way out of it by becoming our own Clan."

Reaching out and touching Edward's hand Toshi told him, "I know where to get
the other four people needed; in fact we both met all of them yesterday, the
candidates for the open immigration to Aaron's kingdom."



Aaron smiled as Kenny walked into the med bay as he looked the reports over
before releasing Pat, "Hello Love, I was surprised to see you stay behind,
but then again I'm not, not really. So what's up?"

Kenny grinned as he walked over to look in the bio-tube, Pat sure looked
different he thought, "I'm here to help Pat with 'THE NEED'."

Lifting his head up as he tried to understand what the hell Kenny said,
sometimes the Clan came up with the strangest expressions that boggled the
mind, Aaron stared at Kenny a moment longer before asking, "I'm afraid to
ask what 'The Need' is?"

Kenny giggled, "We were talking to some of the new guys down in the city the
other day, the ones that like to go over to Middle Earth and explore," Kenny
giggled again at seeing the pained expression on Aaron's face. "Well we were
talking about what it is like to come out of the bio-tube after alteration,
and Xon was comparing it to Maes'byrn that the Kathat go through twice
yearly, well, after a while it was decided we should have a special name
too, so we chose one that explained it." Kenny went back to looking at Pat
waiting for Aaron to open the bio-tube.

Aaron's mind flashed through the different explanations and finally hit on
what they were talking about, the need to cum when a person was released had
become 'THE NEED', chuckling he closed out the file and started the release
cycle. Once the bio-tube unsealed, he went about removing the breathing tube
and the IV cuff, before turning the soma unit off and removing the sensors.
Placing his hands, one either side of Pat's head he closed his eyes and
brushed his mind against Pat's and smiled as they merged.

"Morning love," Aaron sent as he felt Pat start to wake up and then started
to show Pat what had happened while he had been asleep, ten minutes later
Aaron opened his eyes to see Kenny laying on Pat's stomach swallowing as he
felt Pat stiffen up as his orgasm hit. Keeping Kenny away from sex was a
losing battle it seemed; maybe he needed to come up with new positions for
those two so they could finally get what they wanted. Alteran genetics had
come into play now that they were full Alterans, and Alterans as a group
were a very horny bunch.

Smiling as Pat opened his eyes and smiled up at him, Aaron helped him stand,
once his feet were on the floor he kissed Pat to the point where he was
aroused and moaning in pleasure, reaching down, Aaron felt Pat's hard cock
and was slightly surprised at how big it was, a healthy six and three
quarters, and he was not finished growing yet. Reaching for the lube, Aaron
noticed Kenny's disappointed expression and smiled, time to start doing
things differently, moving to the side and pulling Kenny around so he was
kissing Pat he quickly yet gently lubed  and stretched Kenny up, it was
surprisingly easier than he thought it would be, after Kenny was prepared,
he stood and turned Kenny around and slipping his fingers out, slowly he
slid half of Pat Inside Kenny, making sure to keep his hand on the lower
part of Pat's hard cock so he could not thrust too deeply and using his lube
slickened fingers he lubed himself up and slowly in between Pat's thrusts
entered him and smiled at the pleasurable groans coming from Kenny's throat.

Pat, more in control now that he had just come down from his fourth orgasm,
smiled as he felt Kenny spasm under his hand yet again and then leaned back
into Aaron as he felt the spurting inside him, sighing as he stopped moving,
content to relax and let himself go soft, he leaned over and kissed Kenny
before blinking and finding all three of them at the entrance to the hot
spring Aaron had shown him in his mind. Being careful he walked, without
slipping out of Kenny, down the steps, keeping a tight hold on Kenny the
whole time as he felt Aaron move with him, slowly thrusting in and out with
each step.

Settling back after both he and Pat had slid out of their lovers, Aaron
smiled at the contented look on Kenny's face and pulled him over to his lap,
"If the others are willing, there are several ways to do like I did for Pat,
to make sure no one goes too deep inside you, so you can get off restriction
and put away your measuring stick.well only until." Trailing off Aaron
looked at Kenny, breaking out in an evil grin, "you know what, I have come
up with the perfect prank you can play on Edward, you'll need to get dressed
in your formal over robes and uniform, and you will have to play the part of
a Nakodo perfectly, but Edward is meeting with Toshi for lunch and Toshi is
more than a little interested in Edward," Giggling, Aaron leaned over as Pat
slid close, "Now here is what we are going to do."



Standing in the hall, trying to give Edward the privacy needed for this
conversation, William was enjoying being openly imposing for once, the staff
were terrified of him and keeping away, sensing movement he turned back to
the hall leading to the entrance and froze as he noticed one of the Clan
approaching in formal robes, standing up straight, he noticed it was Kenny,
"Greetings Young Sir, is there a problem I need to know about?"

Smirking, Kenny looked up, "Not really, I am here in my official capacity as
go between for Edward, I believe it is called Nakodo; as such, I have duties
I must perform." Nodding regally Kenny stepped around William and made his
way down the hall where one of the other guards stiffened and bowed his head
before kneeling down and opening the door for him, "Thank you."

Walking into the room, he was secretly relieved they were both dressed and
there was a meal on the table, smiling at Edward who was shocked at seeing
him and then at Toshi who did not know what to think, he made his way to the
table and sat down carefully billowing his robe behind him; he had been
practicing after all, Aaron had spent a long time helping him perfect it for
this purpose, the shock value of his entrance had hidden the SE110 that
followed him into the room near the ceiling, perfectly.

Hiding his grin behind his formal face, Kenny looked at Toshi, "I am Kenny
of Clan Stranton of the Kingdom of Altare; I am Nakodo to Edward of the
house England," he gave this almost several inches long head bow toward
Toshi who was shocked, his mouth was moving but no words were coming out.
"At this time, I must ask your intentions towards Edward and ask for your
family history to ensure HONOR is upheld."

Kenny looked over at Toshi who all of a sudden became nervous, slapping his
measuring rod on the table making Edward gulp in surprise and hissed out,
"Kenny." as he tried to shove the rod off the table, only to have his hand
slapped by Kenny, "How big is your penis when fully hard and how big around
is it? How often do you masturbate and how much do you cum? Have you ever
had sexual relations with anyone other than your hand?"

Edward was mortified, red and blushing furiously as he groaned, "KENNY.What
do you think you are doing?"

Toshi did not think he could ever be as shocked as he was now; his mouth was
open in shock while his eyes bugged out.

Smirking, Kenny looked at Edward while watching Toshi out of the corner of
his eye, "Well, as your Nakodo I am well within my rights to ask these
questions, even within my rights to examine his genitalia personally to see
if they measure up."

Edward couldn't believe it, "GODS.Kill me now," he groaned out before
banging his head down on the table in embarrassment.

Mouth moving, Toshi looked at Kenny and squeaked out, "Examine my
penis.!?!?"

Acting prim and proper, Kenny looked at Toshi, "Of course, how else would I
know if you measure up, after all, we have standards," Kenny picked up his
measuring rod and held it up doing better than his best to hold in his
laughter, after all a prank like this would win him the title. "I require
you to get fully hard so I can measure you, you must be larger in length
than this rod or you are unacceptable, proper breeding or not."

Toshi paled and squeaked out, "Larger.Hard."

"Oh my gods, I'm going to kill Aaron, when I agreed to this I thought he
would handle it himself, or even one of the others, I'm so embarrassed,"
Edward whispered, blushing as red as the silk pillows he was leaning
against.

"I must also ask how many girl children have been born into your line in the
past one hundred years," Kenny ignored Edward which just added to the mirth.
"Well, what are you waiting for?"

Toshi mouthed the word 'what' several times before he found his voice,
"What."

"Strip and get hard so I can measure you of course, you can answer my
questions as you do that, start with the girls born into your line." Kenny
looked at him like a teacher looking disappointed at his favorite pupil.

Mortified, Edward jumped up, "Excuse me, I need to go.go talk to
someone.I'll be." Edward rushed out of the room but not before hearing Kenny
tell him, "Of course, you should not have been left alone with this one
until I have done my duty.now then, are you slow in the head or are you not
interested."

Pete looked around at the rest of the Clan they had been told Kenny was
going to pull a prank to rival his and they had gathered to watch it, "I
never knew someone could get that red before and still be able to move."

Tim who was wheezing from laughing so hard pointed to the screen,
"He.I.can't believe."

"Oh my God, he is actually stripping," Damien giggled before falling back
into Fred's lap.

"Well SHIT, his prank beats mine, and I thought I would hold first place
forever, I mean how do you top 'The Talk'," Pete was stunned as he watched
Kenny harrumph over the size and lack of hardness on command.

Right about then, Edward tried to come back into the room and saw what was
going on, turning red once more, he closed the door and went back to
William, "I need to talk to Aaron.like really.really bad," glancing over his
shoulder as he heard Kenny demand that Toshi shoot his load so he could
measure it he frantically looked at the guard, "Like right now!!!"

Kenny watched as Toshi finally was able to climax all over the table top he
had cleared and then tapped the cleared top when he told him to shoot his
load, pulling his scanner out he ran the diagnostic on the sample, when it
beeped he placed the scanner back in its pouch and pulled his sleeve back
down and stood, placing a long form on the table Kenny smiled, "that should
be enough for now, at least until you fill this out and return it to me,
after that, I will schedule your physical. Do hurry and be truthful as I
have other prospects to interview."  Placing each hand in the other arm's
sleeve Kenny walked towards the door and as he approached it, he disappeared
in a shower of sparkles as Richard who had been watching the SE110's feed
from Aaron's office ported him out.

Toshi stood there naked as the day he was born, staring at the space Kenny
disappeared from, sperm still covering the end of his hand as he stared at
the long list of questions. That is how Edward found him several moments
later after arranging to be picked up so he could kill Aaron; well it wasn't
Aaron's fault, but Kenny on the other hand. Eyes wide as he took in Toshi,
staring at the cum covered table, "My God, you actually went through with
it," Closing the door behind him he went over to Toshi and pulled him into a
hug, breaking the shock.

"Not to be rude or anything, but how did he leave here?" Toshi ignored his
cum covered hand and only noticed it when Edward picked up one of the towels
and started to clean him up, and it felt nice.

"He ported out, another one of the gifts besides telepathy you get when you
are altered to be Alteran," after what Toshi had been put through Edward
felt he deserved to know what the pluses were.

Mark was still laughing as he got dressed; Doug was washing his face again
so he did not look like he had been crying. Which he had, he laughed so hard
he had cried tears while watching Kenny's performance, pulling his circlet
off the shelf he placed it on his head, before looking in the mirror, if
anyone had even seen him dressed like this, they would never think of the
blond haired cowboy from outside Bixby.

Smiling and pulling Doug into a hug after he came out of the bathroom, Mark
kissed him and straightened his circlet and over robes, after the incident
yesterday, the new rule was outside the kingdom you dressed the part, "Well
love, do you have your list? I was thinking of stopping at Gene Corp first,
and then after taking a peak at some of the herd they want me to look at, we
could go to Australia to get your sheep, maybe get a late lunch somewhere
over there, I don't plan to be long, so if you get what you want fast
enough, maybe we can go sightseeing."

"Sightseeing, I don't know what is around Australia or what to do there,"
Doug was pleased yet confused, he never thought of going anywhere else.

Laughing, Mark ported them up to the livestock cruiser, the ship Xon had
transformed for them to transport livestock in the transporter buffers,
"Well, I was thinking if we have time, we could visit the park where they
built Rohan for the Lord of the Rings movie, maybe even where they built the
shire."

Victor looked up from the command chair smiling, "Velcome Young Lord, Young
Sir, shall we get underway?"

Doug smiled as he looked at the commander, "You've done a bang up job on
getting rid of your Russian accent, and we are ready any time you are."

Blushing Victor looked over his shoulder and nodded to the gestalt team who
yelled out "Porting," once the Earth was in the view screen he smiled, "I
have been trying very hard," he added a chuckle, "and a month ago I spoke no
English."

"Doug's right," Mark smiled as he pulled Doug a little closer, "It is
amazing how quickly you've mastered English," kissing Doug as he pulled him
around to the position everyone who ported with Aaron so loved, face to
face, "I think we will start with Gene Corp, if the herd is acceptable,
after you use the transporters to place them in the buffer move on to
Australia, we'll port over after we've given the herd the once over, I would
expect the inspection of the sheep to go quickly for the most part and once
you've got them your good to go back if you want, we'll plan on making our
own way home." Tilting his head to look over Doug's head so he could see
Victor's face better, "Just let Tommy know as soon as you make orbit at
Middle Earth, so he can be ready to receive the livestock."

Victor laughed and waved as the two ported off his scout, he still thought
it was hilarious when the youngsters voted overwhelmingly to rename the farm
planet after the Lord of the Rings book. Glancing around the tiny bridge and
at his crew he smiled, even if he was only doing milk runs right now, he was
enjoying himself. And one excited thought popped in his head as he settled
back; in another month or so, he would be getting a larger command, the
anticipation at seeing the ship for the first time was killing him, no one
knew what they looked like yet, or even where they were being built.

Mark looked up at the building in front of him and heard the neighing of the
horses in the pasture, and smiled, this was going to be fun he thought as he
noticed a limo pull in and an older gentleman in jeans get out of the back,
"Well, let the fun begin," he told Doug as they started for the main doors
Doug giggling all the way as he knew what Mark wanted to do.

Looking around the interior reception area, Mark noticed nothing had changed
since the last time they had been here, not that he had expected it to,
looking down at Doug, "Well my young Jedi, it is time."

Giggling, Doug looked up at Mark, "You're just still upset that the farm was
named after Tolkien instead of Star Wars."

"Not really," Mark laughed, "I just think the over robe thing makes us look
like Jedi Knights, but I'll deal because of the built in protections on the
things."

Hearing laughter Susan looked over towards the door and saw two individuals
in fine clothing wearing what looked to be crowns; glancing down at her
appointment book she saw the late morning was free until two when there were
several appointments, but nothing now. She was about to call one of the free
salesman when another group walked in the door, several of them dressed as
Shaolin and her eyes widened when the older one berated the first two.

Master Lo had ported in with his team, some of the best of his students and
apprentices, walking into the building without looking at the beautiful
surroundings he spotted the two he had been sent after, David had been quite
angry when he found out these two had left without a team. "Young
Dragon.Dragon Lord, I must chastise both of you for leaving without your
protection detail, Dragon Lord David was very angry," he held his laughter
in before bowing respectfully and moving closer, "Really, you two should
know better, David is threatening a no nookie for a week as punishment if
you do this again."

Shocked, Mark turned around and seeing the Shaolin spread out, paled,
"Sorry, I forgot, I wonder how Aaron deals with all of this, I mean I never
truly gave it a thought, and now we are constantly surrounded by guards when
we leave the kingdom."

Doug sighed, "You know if we keep this up, we can't complain about when
Aaron leaves his detail all the time."

"Chastisement noted, Master Lo, and we will try to do better, no promises
though as this is still new to us having to worry about such things," Mark
smiled as he noticed the nervous secretary on the phone and walked over.
"Hello, would you tell Mr. Lancaster that Mark Stranton wants to see him,"
stepping away from the desk, he stopped and smiled, "Oh, could you also tell
your CEO, Alan I believe his name is, that I am here and file 29, 34 and 11
are acceptable; I would like to complete the transaction and start
transporting the herds."

Doug watched Mark from the glass wall overlooking the show ring, when Mark
walked back with a smug smile on his face he snorted in amusement, "You
enjoyed that, didn't you?"

Giggling, Mark nodded as he watched the secretary have a nervous breakdown
form the reflection in the glass, "Yes I did, I am so going to enjoy all of
this really, Lancaster shouldn't have squashed the expansion attempts his
CEO wanted to do to get our business."

The same man they saw in jeans getting out of the limo rushed into the lobby
and looked around, spotting the two young men standing next to the showroom
window he tried to rush over but was stopped when one of the Shaolin stepped
in his way and glared at him, staring up into the unsmiling face, he gulped
before stepping back.

Mark not wanting to make the man any madder than he probably was already,
moved over, "Mr. Lancaster, I understand you own Gene Corp solely," leaning
on the edge of the couch, more sitting in the arm, Mark looked at the man.
"Name your price and if it is reasonable, I will call the bank and have the
cash transferred over immediately, we can get the sale over by the end of
business today," Watching the man gulp and move his mouth silently, he
added, "A reasonable and fair price, don't overinflate it, or I will just
build my own facility, it's just easier for me right now to buy one already
finished than take time out of my busy schedule to get one up and running."

Hearing the doors open, Mark glanced over his shoulder and smiled, "Hello
Roger, I take it the sale went through then?"

"Yes it did, Dragon Lord," Roger smirked as the man Mark was negotiating
with paled, "You are now the proud owner of the seventeen hundred acres
across the road from Gene Corp."

Lancaster paled again and sighed, "I'm a hard headed Scotsman and I guess I
had my head in the sand and did not want to bother myself about expanding."
Breaking out into laughter, he moved over and sat down on the couch farthest
away from the lad, he did not want the guards to get antsy again, "Five
million and my farm gets supplied free of cost just like it is now, you have
my word I won't take advantage of the free services."

Mark looked over at Roger who looked at the folder he brought with him
before nodding as he looked up, "Fair, very fair and the condition is
standard for these type of deals."

Mark smiled, "Good, then my business is done here, it's now in Roger's
hands, and you'll have the cash transferred into your account by four as
long as all the papers in that folder get to the courthouse in time."

Laughing, Roger shook his head, "I just need to know which account to pull
the money from, is this a kingdom project or yours?"

Mark shook his head as he stood up and spotted Alan standing at the side
looking nervous and confused, "Take it from the kingdom account, I have no
clue what's in mine, better be safe.plus, I won't have the time to play with
this until I get the new farms in order."

Motioning Alan over, Mark held out one of the Isolinear chips, "Alan, are
the lots ready to start transporting out?"

Nodding his head not knowing what to say, Alan took the chip and looked at
it confused, "Um yes and I had the herds placed in the side pasture,"
looking at the chip, Alan was not sure what was going on, except he had a
new boss and it was this young man.

Picking up on the man's thoughts Mark took pity on him, "The expansion plans
for this facility are on this chip, at the end of business today, make sure
the building is empty and the south side is clear. Our construction bots
will be building the new section overnight; my plans for this expansion
include the quarantine facility being built across the road and I listed all
the species I expect you to handle, even if you have to contract it out like
you will for the poultry. I want to be able to stop in one place, this
place, to get all of our livestock needs met, and that includes the other
off world colonies as well."

Walking back towards Doug, he thought about Tommy, "I know you will never
have the facilities, but find a staff member that is willing to work on
aquaculture, he can act as the go between anytime we need stock, we can
place a call to your office and you can make all the arrangements and all we
have to do is send a ship to do the pickup."

Hugging Doug to his side, Mark picked up on his excitement, "Master Lo, our
next stop is Brisbane, we're supposed to meet someone by the airport for
some reason." Smiling as he watched Master Lo point fingers at some of his
team, telling them to go first, he sighed as he waited for him to turn back
towards him and nod that it was safe to port, when he got home he would be
having a long talk with the Clan, how the hell Aaron did not go nuts putting
up with this shit was beyond him.

Once they appeared at the air terminal, Doug looked around and ran over to
the window to look outside, he ignored the man who was yelling at him to
stop, thinking he was yelling at someone else, staring out at the view
outside the window he heard a scream of pain behind him, looking over his
shoulder he saw one of the Shaolin apprentices had a man in uniform on the
ground and had snapped his arm.

Mark moved over and glared at the man as he skimmed his thoughts, sighing
when he found the man did not have harmful intentions towards Doug he made a
motion with his hand, once the man had been dragged to his feet and several
other nervous police had surrounded them he shook his head, "Please take him
to Sol Station Trauma and have one of our healers fix his arm, when he's
released bring him back down if you would."

The apprentice holding onto the officer bowed his head, "As you command
Dragon Lord," afterwards, he ported out with the man.

Mark could have sworn he saw a smirk in the apprentice's eye as he bowed to
him, this was getting more than ridiculous, oh yes, he thought, a long talk
with the rest of the Clan was in order when he got back. Hugging Doug and
kissing him silly, Mark turned back to the officers and moved nearest to the
one dressed differently, "Sorry about that, but the Shaolin are a little bit
overprotective after someone tried to kill off all of my people," The first
part was said with a smile that disappeared, then he added in a cold voice,
"So I can fully understand why someone rushing after one of us would end up
hurt.or worse."

Point gotten across, Mark smiled again, "Now what can we do for you
gentleman, we are supposed to be meeting a Karl somebody about buying some
livestock."

Senior Constable Walllings tried to wrap his mind around what had happened
and moved over slightly so he could look at the teen and his companion, he
moved slow enough, so those right scary blokes did not dummy him up and do
another slap down, "Well mate, only a dropkick would approach you again, but
I do need to see passports."

Master Lo smirked as he and every one of the seven remaining members of his
team pulled out the Alteran passport with the rearing dragon on the cover
and opened it up, showing the red diplomatic notice on the inside.

Walllings eyes got huge as he looked at the passports and then over to the
tall poppies and got this gobsmacked expression on his face as both of them
faced him with their passports out, and the taller bloke told him his name.

"I am Mark Stranton, of Clan Stranton of the Kingdom of Altare," Mark smiled
and resisted the impulse to add 'take me to your leader', but only just.

"Right then, the Jackaroo is waiting for you over by the luggage carts,"
Walllings looked at the right scary blokes that his mind was screaming
Digger every time he looked at them. Motioning his men to back away he
watched them walk away and hoped no one Drongo crossed their path."

Doug was beaming as they walked out of the doors; he was finally going to
get some sheep of his own, "I wonder what a Jackaroo is."

Chuckling, the young man waiting for them stepped up, "G'Day Mates, a
Jackaroo is a male station hand or station trainee manager, and before you
ask, a station is what we all call a farm." Looking at the group he glanced
back at his rover and wondered how he was going to get all of them to the
station.

"'Do not worry, we will have our own vehicles transported over," Master Lo
smiled as he looked up to the sky after arriving at the parking lot and then
looked back at the empty lane smiling as two of the Clan's diplomatic
hummers appeared, pointing at the two black hummers he grinned,
"Transportation for my team is arranged, I shall ride with you and the
Dragons, while the rest of the team leads and follows."

The young man looked at the two black rovers and shook his head, before
getting into the rover, "hop on in and we'll be off."

An hour later Doug was looking over several hundred sheep that had been cut
out of the main herd and watching the cattle dog break the herd up again,
"Time to pick the ones I want then," Doug smiled as he moved through the
pen, touching and checking each of the young sheep before moving to the
next.  Every time he found one he liked, he pulled it to the side and pushed
it through the gate into the smaller grass side lot, after half an hour he
looked over his choices and looked up, "While I run the scanner on these, do
you have any young ones around?"

Pushing his hat back so he could rub his head he looked over his shoulder
towards the barns, "Over there we have all the young ones, most are."
thinking about it he finally said, "Most are going to go to the slaughter
house for meat, we don't normally check them for new breeding stock unless
we need to replace a few."

Doug Grinned, "Great, that sounds just the ticket," pulling his scanner out
of the arm pouch he happily moved away and caught each one of his picks
before running the scanner on it.

Mark grinned as he watched the Shaolin walk around the area looking for
threats, and when the young man moved over to him he gave him a quick look
before going back to watch Doug have his fun.

Thinking very carefully as he watched the younger one laughing as he pushed
one of his choices back towards the gate into the larger pasture, he filed
it away to look at that one later as he shunted it into another smaller
treatment pasture, finally as the young sir as he was called moved off
happily towards the barns with his scanner out, he glanced at the taller one
he was walking next to and brought up the courage to breach the subject, "I
have heard a lot of rumors about your people," he was being so careful and
trying to chose his words wisely, "If you truly help out people my brother
needs help."

Mark skimmed the young guys thoughts and found him to be very worried about
his brother, the way his parents treated his brother was wrong in his mind
but he did not want to see them end up dead, "Where is your brother now, and
why are your parents treating him the way they do?"

"I wish I bloody well knew, but he won't tell me and they won't so I am
stuck in the middle," the young man told him as he watched the younger of
the two who seemed to be in charge move quickly thought the lambs, checking
the ones he was cutting out of the pens he noticed he had a very good eye
for sheep.

Mark was following the young man's thoughts as he took his time responding
and when his mind flashed on his brother sleeping in his bunk he turned, "If
you want to get your brother help, yet make sure your parents don't fall
under our laws and judgment there is not a lot I can do, not unless he asks
me for asylum, and if he does not want to press the issue, there is nothing
I can do about it."

Watching the indecision war in the young man's mind Mark decided the issue
for him, "Don't hesitate if he's hurt, if something would happen to your
brother because he is hurt and you didn't want your parents to get in
trouble how would you feel?"

"I would feel horrible and curse myself every morning, noon and night."
Sighing, he looked back towards the bunkhouses, "My brother is not feeling
well, he is doing a lot of sleeping and my parents, my parents have not
physically harmed him that I know off, just reduced him to
tears.constantly," he whispered.

"Catching an image of his brother sleeping this morning and not being able
to wake up from the young man's mind Mark looked around to see who was on
his detail, "Sounds like your brother is sick, maybe something physically
wrong with him."

A little more than worried, he looked back at the group of bunk trailers and
pointed to the far end one, "I left him asleep this morning, he was still
sleeping when I left to pick you up.Please, I don't have any right to ask
you but will you check on him?"

Now who has medical training Mark thought slightly on the loud side as he
gazed over his detail.

One of the apprentices ran over and bowed, "Young Dragon Lord, I am training
to be a healer, Master Lo asked me to join the detail today in case the
services of a healer were required."

Seeing that Doug was finished and cleaning up, Mark nodded, "Yes, I think we
have a young man to check, his brother here tells me he wouldn't wake up,"
glancing at the Jackaroo with a slight frown, "If we knew this earlier we
could have checked up on him first, but we will damn well do it now."

"Is this your parents' place?" Doug asked as he secured his over robe and
noticed for the first time the energy shield merged into the seams.

"Nah.the oldies place is the other side of town, dad is a confirmed cattle
station master," he wondered if they would be able to fix whatever was wrong
with his brother and opening the door for the healer he moved to the side
and noticed it was too still, way too quiet. Confused and trying to find out
what was different as he walked around the bunkhouse he gulped in fear as
the healer and the one who was in charge came out of the bedroom, alone with
unreadable expression son their faces.

Scared for the first time in his life, he fell back in the chair knowing
deep down something wasn't right, he paled further when he heard the word,
'had', and the sorrowful expression on the healers face.

"I am sorry, but it is too late, your brother had a defect to his heart, one
that even your healers could have fixed, if it is any consolation he went in
his sleep peacefully," The Shaolin bowed his head and went to the side of
the room and carefully ran the scanner on the brother, the defect he had
found was usually hereditary.

Mark did not know what to feel right now, he watched the young man cry
silently as he seemed lost and over something so silly and easily fixed, as
the young man relived all the moments of bullying done over the past couple
of years by his father; he watched it unfold in the young man's... no he
picked up his name; it was Karl, so he watched the story unfold in Karl's
mind. He was startled out of his thought as the Shaolin healer suddenly
struck and the young man was slumped over in the chair.

"I am sorry Dragon Lord, but this one has the same defect to his heart as
his brother did, but not quite as bad, he was coming close to having a heart
stopping event, I needed to act fast," the Shaolin healer bowed.

"Take him to Sol Trauma then, I am done here anyway," Doug whispered sadly
hearing what had happened, after Bruce had been ported out Doug hugged Mark,
"I don't think there is a lot we can do about this, is there?"

The station master having gotten word back that the money had been
transferred had come over to tell the visitors they could take their stock
now, well after hearing what had happened he had slipped inside and checked
on Bruce's brother and came back into the room as Doug asked what they could
do, "A terrible tragedy that could have been prevented.if I only knew,"
looking back into the bedroom he thought again, if I only knew.

Straightening his shoulder he looked back up as he pulled his cell phone
out, "I was coming to tell you the money transfer is complete and the stock
is yours now, I will handle everything from here, it will be better if I do
this instead of all of you. I can make sure a louder message is sent my way,
than yours." Flipping the phone open he hit speed dial and walked out of the
bunkhouse, 'G'Day Sarge, George's boy was just found passed on, in his
brother's bunkhouse, it looks like all these years George was trying to
toughen up the ankle biter was for no good reason, he had a heart problem
that if the stubborn blighter would have taken him to the docs, it would
have been fine in the end.yeah those are the  blokes that are here.nah I
convinced them my way was better, it would put the word out more forceful."
the conversation died out as he left the bunkhouse, out of hearing range.

Mark hugged Doug and they both thought it was a sad waste; Mark looked over
at Master Lo, "Would you convey my regrets and offer them my help if they
need it in the future, leave a number they can contact us through. I think
it is time we get lunch," and smiling at Doug, "And try to come up with a
plan on what to do now."

Bowing without saying anything, Master Lo walked outside as Mark pictured in
his mind the parking lot of the At Merthyr, he had looked it up on the web
before they left to see if it sounded like a good place to eat and sent the
visualization to the Shaolin and sighed as they waited for the all clear
before porting over.

Doug, feeling slightly silly, all dressed up like some Arabian prince, tried
to ignore the stares as they waited for a table to be set up near the back,
placing his hand on Mark's he thought real hard so Mark would know to make
contact, "Am I a bad person for not feeling bad for that boy dying?"

Shaking his head, "No, we both feel slightly sad, but it would have been
different if he died in front of us or even after trying to help him, it is
tragic, but I guess as a coping mechanism, we won't feel anything really
drastic. It happened before we even arrived in Australia. The one that is
going to have problems is Karl, the brother; he is going to have to spend
time with the mind healers before he stops blaming himself."

Editors' ramblings

RadioRanchers note: This chapter has been in my hands for some time now, and
I am sorry I didn't get it out sooner.  My only excuse, if you can call it
that, is that I had edited it sometime back, before it had been rewritten to
correct a continuity error, and somehow it got pushed back out of my
thoughts.

I certainly Hope that Karl can be helped to keep him from blaming himself
for his brother's death.  However, their father should shoulder that blame
and remember for a good long time that his stupid attitude is what killed
his son.

I don't think it was malice, or I think it would have been picked up from
Karl's mind. Just the feeling that the boy should have been more of a "real
man".

Darryl AKA The Radio Rancher

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