Chapter 120

Dear Willow and Family

Hello sister-in-law, how are you. I suppose I did get a bit deep into the bushes (as it were) with regard to space travel. I'll try not to do that too much. I miss your brother. You talking about wanting to be spit-roasted in your last letter got my engine going enough that I was more than a bit tempted to find another man to help me out with that myself. I think I would have too if I didn't think that it would have reduced Ron's respect for me.

But as he thinks that the sun rises and sets on Will I couldn't very well invite another man into our bed. However if as I suspect will happen, Lily becomes sponsor eligible and stays with the family, and I think she will, then we probably will go looking for another man. That is true especially if Katy is somehow found alive. After all that would make six women in the house without adding any more as Lily's concubines. Even with Will here dividing seven women between him and Ron would be about the maximum I'd want to share with. That's even considering that all of us (even Lily) are very enthusiastically bisexual.

We've been harvesting a small amount of our garden. But more of it we're reserving to let go to seed. The reason for that should be fairly easy to understand, we brought in heritage seeds where we could and we want to make sure that we can continue to have vegetables and herbs from our garden. Some of the herbs are perennials but some aren't. Even so expanding the colony gardens is in our long term best interest. So we're making sure that we'll have seeds to trade for services or for handcrafts that we like.

I just got your letter. Some men you'd like to strange? Uh ... Ok? Sometimes I can say I'd like a little strange. Especially with Will away. That doesn't mean that I don't appreciate him and Ron. It just means that I need to be spit-roasted on occasion!

Oh! I think you meant strangle. Yeah if Captain Boyd hadn't ordered Lily's first sponsor to be retested for CAP evaluation I do believe that he would have made my short list. Then I'd like to hunt down the men who enslaved our beautiful elf and bring their heads to her. Even is she isn't quite that barbaric, I do believe that she would appreciate the effort. Beyond that though I make sure to tell her every day that I love her. I tell the others that too. But Lily has a way of sliding to the side and hiding so that I have to double check myself to make sure that I have hugged her and kissed her and generally worked to make sure that she feels loved.

A good deal of making Lily feel loved is showing her that I'm willing to pay attention to what she's doing. Whether that is her study of space-time theory according to the Confederacy or in making sure I'm with her when she goes to the park. Another part is pushing gently at her areas of discomfort. That is why I'm fairly certain that she feels that having me run interference so that she can wear a chastity belt. Other people might find it odd to use that method of saying I'm taken, and no one else is welcome to try to take me, but in some ways I do understand. She lost her family, whether by war or by the connivance of criminals or what Americans might call coyotes. In other words those who move people through borders illegally. Whatever the cause, Lily has broken spots that no amount of time in the sleep-trainer will ever heal. Instead we will always have to be aware that we can hurt her (not that such isn't true of anyone) if we aren't paying attention to her emotional state.