‘So, they have taboos on nakedness, here, too!’ Béla thought, annoyed. XXNX The room faded. Elaine looked upset and angry. “I would like you to call me that.”
“Yes, Go… Béla,” he said. There was going to be no stopping him once he got started. I don’t understand why, really.”
Béla smiled at him. ‘I’m going to go talk to Father!’
Elaine vanished. He was generating odes to her even as they spoke. I’m a different species than you. He has twenty-eight other daughters like me, and one son.”
“You have twenty-eight sisters?” he asked, incredulously. I was killed in a fire created by those who wanted to own me. ‘I’d better nip this in the bud before too many people start worshiping me… or crucifying me.’
“I’m not a goddess,” she explained. Only a goddess, or maybe an angel, can do that.’
Jeff didn’t know what she was, but he knew
