No one asked what happened to break the bond in the first ce. I suddenly knew great offense would


    be taken to that question. That would be taboo to ask and very rude.


    I nced up at Master Damien and he looked a little upset with me. That I dared to think these men


    were that dishonorable upset my Masters.


    “I apologize, Masters,” I said quietly.


    That statement made the other men notice me again.


    “It’s been a long time since they had a problem like this,” a man said pointing to my stomach.


    “Last time is was men from the red mountains. The family’s name was Barne.”


    “They didn’t hurt the ve, did they?” Master Bane asked.


    I couldn’t tell if he was curious or if I was curious. It was all starting to blend together. We were all


    curious.


    “No, they brought the men here to be with the ve until it removed the child from its body. Once the


    child was eating solid food they sent the men home with the ve,” he said.


    “How did that vee to have a child inside of it?” Master Evan asked.


    Again, I felt it was more Master Christof and I curious about this and not Master Evan.


    “The traders that sold us the health drink were cutting it so they had more to sell. We test it now before


    it goes to thepounds,” the man said.


    Master Damien and his brothers pondered the issue for a moment before Master Christof spoke.


    “Are we human?” he asked.


    “It seems unlikely we could make a child with a human. Ciara is so…unlike us.”


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    He was right. I was from a different in a different gxy. I was weak and small, nothing like


    women here.


    “My Mistress told my brothers and I stories once, when she was in a good mood. It was after thest


    ve with a child was brought here.”


    ALL the men clustered around Listening to this man talk. He dropped his voice low so the sound would


    not echo in the cavern.


    “The portals used to open spontaneously on our world. The ones here lead to severals, Earth


    was one of them,” he said conspiratorially.


    “Creatures from Earth came to this world and creatures from our world went there. My Mistress told us


    she did not know how long the connections were open or where life started originally. She thought Life


    started here must have moved to Earth.”


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    Or things on Earth moved here, I thought silently. The man continued to speak. “The women have


    since closed the portals here and Earth’s are crumbling, as the vers know. The connection between


    our worlds is Lost now.”


    I grinned and shook my head. The connection was alive and well as far as I could see.


    It was interesting what the man had said. Did humans evolve from apes as we’d thought? Or did apes


    evolve from something here? Was the missing link really a Paterian rtive that altered the course of


    history? Ours may have been sharing genes for eons. Humans evolved to lose the fur and the


    Paterian women evolved to gain wings.


    A funny line of thinking struck me. Were vampires a story based on seeing a Paterian male that


    wandered through a portal? It didn’t seem impossible.