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SON OF THE SUN kitchen. If she would just stand motionless while he absorbed the essence of her with hungry eyes! Why would she not keep still? “Was she, after all, like earth women? Even earth women were beyond his inexperienced knowing, he remembered. Would Launie finally bring him the love and peace that “passeth understanding?” Launie, Launie, he thought. Why are you so long in appearing to me? But Lily, delectable, lovable Lily, was delicious to his inner vaults of feeling. He remembered suddenly that he was here alone in the doorway, lost in a kind of limbo. He nearly ran into the kitchen so he could feast his eyes on Lily, who was cosmic livingness itself. She was preparing two glasses of refreshing beverage—water and pellets—those never-ending pellets! She offered him one of the glasses, with its liquid bubbling amber. She took the other and they drank thirstily, Adam rising under its effect, and Lily descending. As they put their glasses down, they looked into each other’s eyes with a deeper understanding than before. Lily saw in Adam the small essence of Leo, and Adam saw in Lily only the promise of Launie. One thing was certain now, and that was that Adam was no longer tired or sleepy, but wide awake and expectant. No, not anticipating Launie, for he must first understand and fathom Lily. He had learned the ways of these people, and he must master each phase of his learning before progressing to the next. Thus ran his thoughts. Having drunk the nectar, and now meeting on an equal plane, Adam felt his masculine strength assert itself. Through his vocal chords it spoke, almost as a thing apart. “I do not wish to meet any other woman of your world. I want to be with you. I will learn whatever I must learn, and I do want to learn, but I want no more of your women in my life. Please spare me from any more such pain and pleasure. Really, I cannot stand more. You have been my nurse. You stand have more. my nurse. are beautiful beyond words. I long to be near you and with you. That is all I feel at this time. Must I go through more than dear avd this? I am only an earthly mortal, and you give me all that I can possibly receive. Won't your people let me be at receive. 94