Chapter 12: More "Discussions"

An attempt at subtlety by the visitors failed when they delicately asked about the ‘communication’ between the team members just prior to the team going to sleep. Bronwen took it upon herself to explain in unequivocal terms, “Oh, we were both nervous, so we indulged in sex to calm us down.”

“What means ‘indulge’, who can grant indulgences?” asked Hln.

A rather irate Huw butted in with, “I told you many words have changed their meanings since the fourteenth century in more or less subtle ways, nobody has granted indulgences in that sense for many hundreds of years, still less sold them. So we came to a mutual decision to have sex for pleasure and to calm us.”

Bronwen then changed the subject slightly, “How do your humans reproduce, if at all?” she asked.

“Of course they reproduce. The female donates an egg and the male donates sperm. The resulting embryo is brought to maturity in a womb, of course. Do you not have such things? With many people you must have need of many such items,” was the perplexed and perplexing response.”