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Bez looks up appreciatively, his nostrils flaring. "Smells good. What did you make? We were just going to have sandwiches."

Bez thinks about this and shrugs. "Guess yer right. I never thought about it all that much. So... do you want to force feed him or shall I?"

Bez flashes him a dirty look. "Yeah... right... I expect you better not say such things to him, Kerobian... yer rather young to be telling yer parental beings to go get a bit of action in the sack."

Bez stare is far from complacent. "I care not how many years you've managed to put under yer belt, Kero... both he and I are considerably older than you and I know him. Ye might be right. Yer methods might work, but they are not the only way to see him well and truth be told, you had best drop the subject. Ai and I will pair when Ai wants to pair and not one moment before then... understand?" He takes the tray from him and carries it into the bedroom. A few moments later he comes out carrying a sleeping halfgrown lioness and tucks her in with her mother and brothers.

Giving Kero a dirty look he heads back to the bedroom. "He heard you... and he's not very happy right now." he mutters as he passes the dark furred lion. "I'd tell ye to go talk to him, but... I think I had better calm him down a bit first."

Bez disappears into the bedroom for some time. No sound is heard. But there is considerable activity on the mental level. Ai isn't exactly shouting. He rarely raises his voice and never shouts, but as Bez indicated earlier he's extremely unhappy and his distress is bleeding over into the physical world in alternating waves of hot and cold. After a bit Bez sticks his head out the door and waves Kero in.

"He's all yers, dulcah..." laughs the dark haired warrior as he ushers Kero in and then leaves, closing the door behind him.

Ai is sitting cross legged on the bed, his food barely touched, his face unreadable.

"Kero... before you say anything... let me get one thing straight. Which one of ye am I talking to?" he asks in a soft troubled voice.

"Well ye can shove that last part right up yer royal hinnie... " grumbles Tam testily. "And get off my case. Stop telling Bez to do something that ain't going to happen... please. It annoys the hell out of me and isn't fair to him... I... I need to get my head on straight first... Too much has happened. I came too damn close to doing something wrong because of that and I need to center myself first before going there again."

"That's not the only way to restore myself and ye know it. Heck, it isn't even the best way... and it's not as if we're not doing anything in that direction. We're just not going that far, so lay off, okay..." grumbles Ai defensively.

"Seriously, the way I am now, it is probably the worse thing I could do. Think about it. My screens are shot... I'm unstable emotionally and I know it. I'm a damn yoyo right now... I'd probably broadcast the whole entire thing and not even know it... Yer just a voyeur, that's all ye are. So lay off, please. Silver Springs does not need a sudden rise in the birth rate... and that's just amongst the married folk... What about everybody else?"