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I eyed the sky. “It will be dark in an hour. Then you can work on the radio.”
She held up a finger, which meant she wanted me to stop speaking so she could work. I grabbed board, the wire, and her tools, and started stuffing them into my backpack. She tried to stop me, but I simply turned around so my broad back blocked her. Once all her toys were put away, I faced her again. I put my hand up, touching her soft cheek, and I smiled. “I want to call Thuliak too, Love, but we can’t call him if we’re dead.” I hefted the laser rifle, then patted the railgun which I’d strapped to my side with a makeshift holster. “We’re not winning a fight against a big group of them. I might be cocky, but I’m not dumb. One more hour of good walking, then we rest. Deal?”
She bit her lip, eyeing my backpack, but then she nodded. “Fine. Deal.”
We trudged on, and when it started to get dark enough that the bright white of the snow no longer hurt my eyes, we made camp.
Eve practically begged me for her stuff back, and the moment I gave it to her, she was back to work. The remaining three of us had to get the camp together ourselves, but it was easier now because we had more equipment, including a tent we’d taken from the pirate camp.
I looked at Cleopatra and Julia and pointed to the entrance of the tent. “You two sleep first.”
“You’re not tired?” Cleopatra asked me.
I shook my head. “I need less sleep than you do.”
“What about her?” Julia whispered, pointing at Eve, who was holding a wire over the fire.
“She won’t sleep until this wave making device is finished. Eve and I will take first watch. I’ll wake you when I’m tired, or when she finishes, whichever comes first.”
The two of them didn’t argue much with me, and soon they were inside the tent and fast asleep.
I sat down next to Eve.
I watched as she melted the ends of two wires, then pressed them together until the metal cooled enough to make one long wire.
“These wires can call Thuliak?”
She nodded. “You want me to explain the electromagnetic field to you again?”
“Maybe later,” I said, reaching a hand down her pants.
Her eyes widened, but shefinallyput down the radio and looked up at me.
I grinned, and so did she.
“I didn’t think I could get you to stop being Engineer,” I said.
She laughed. “It felt good to be useful again. I mean, not that I’m not useful to you and Thuliak, but—”
“I understand now,” I said. “Even if I didn’t at first. I thought our survival on Eden would depend entirely on me, but without you…”
She reached her hand down my pants and squeezed my cock. “We wouldn’t have survived without you either, Tschenkar.”
She was already wet, and I slid my fingers deeper inside her as my cock grew harder.
“How long does it take?” she asked.
“Does what take?”
“The four babies thing.”
I’d taken my pants off, and she was stroking me up and down my full length, smiling at me in the soft light of the fire. Her big eyes were glassy and warm, a perfect contrast to the cold of the night just outside the warmth of the fire.
“It depends,” I said, “on the female species. Sometimes it can take as long as two months until the female gives birth.”
She stopped stroking me and just squeezed my shaft. “What?Twomonths?”
“Yes,” I said, “I know it’s a long time to wait, but it’s often faster. Two months is the longest—”
