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\par }\pard \ql \fi567\li0\ri0\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5328706 {\insrsid5328706 On my sixteenth birthday Mother summoned me to }{\insrsid477058 the Summit.}{\insrsid5328706 
\par }{\insrsid7158128 An awesome place, the Summit.  }{\insrsid4868804 From there all the lands of the world are visible, laid out beneath you like a map on the floor unless Mother has wrapped the mountaintop in cloud for privacy as she had that day.}{
\insrsid477058 
\par }{\insrsid3749159 She was sitting }{\insrsid14508253 on one of the stone benches that surround the tiny }{\insrsid11217604 peak}{\insrsid4931300  with}{\insrsid11217604  the thick cloud swirling around her, looking every inch the }{\insrsid8796082 Goddess
}{\insrsid11217604  she is}{\insrsid4931300 .  She was dressed simply for it was a private meeting between us, }{\insrsid13188169 yet the likeness of }{\insrsid7080920  the Founder hung at her neck, indicating that this was family business.  She smiled}{
\insrsid2625492 , the ruby of her lips the only bright colour in the scene}{\insrsid7080920 .}{\insrsid3749159 
\par }{\insrsid7080920 \'93Welcome.  Are you well?\'94
\par }{\insrsid4417562 \'93I am well,\'94 I acknowledged, wondering.  My mother had not had much to do with me since bearing me }{\insrsid6823441 all those years before but I knew my sixteenth birthday was important}{\insrsid15534533 
 for some reason, and I guessed that reason was about to be disclosed.}{\insrsid7080920 
\par }{\insrsid867962 \'93That is good,\'94 she said.  \'93For today you must get me with child.\'94}{\insrsid15534533 
\par }{\insrsid867962 \'93Ah,\'94 I said.
\par }{\insrsid5525993 I knew about getting women with child.  For two years }{\insrsid7209856 Inga my nurse had been stroking my prick }{\insrsid4474770 two or three times a day }{\insrsid7209856 until the white seed squirted \endash 
 training the oak, she called it }{\insrsid4474770 \endash }{\insrsid7209856  }{\insrsid4474770 and Geria her pretty daughter had lain naked on the table}{\insrsid3351194  with her legs spread wide so th
at Inga could show me the pink, slippery passage in a woman into which the }{\insrsid9788687 prick and the white seed went.  When I had wanted to put my prick and seed into }{\insrsid15207726 Geria}{\insrsid9788687 , though, }{\insrsid15207726 
Inga had said with great seriousness that my seed was meant for somewhere else.  Now, it seemed, I knew where.}{\insrsid2625492 
\par }{\insrsid7344012 \'93It is the Word and Will of the Founder,\'94  Mother said,  \'93Only to be imparted on the sixteenth birthday of }{\insrsid672595  each of his descendants dwelling beneath the Summit.  Today, or as soon after today as we can manage,
\'94 she added with another smile, }{\insrsid9993216  \'93You will get me with child and I will bear you a sister.  In sixteen years time you will get you}{\insrsid8796082 r}{\insrsid9993216 
 sister with child and she will bear a son.  In sixteen years after that her son will get her with child and she will bear him a sister}{\insrsid7829076  and so the wheel will turn through the ages carrying the Blood of the Founder and keeping it pure.
\'94}{\insrsid15207726 
\par }{\insrsid13445171 \'93Oh,\'94  I said.}{\insrsid7829076 
\par }{\insrsid13445171 Getting my }{\insrsid2172972 m}{\insrsid13445171 other with child was not going to be difficult, I speculated \endash  on my part at least.  Just looking at her sitting regally on the stone bench had made my prick }{\insrsid14574572 
swell into Inga\rquote s oak.  She was only}{\insrsid11277594  }{\insrsid15292898 thirty-two}{\insrsid14574572 , of course}{\insrsid15292898 ,}{\insrsid11277594  because }{\insrsid14574572 sixteen years before }{\insrsid4016418 her father}{
\insrsid11943213 /}{\insrsid4016418 brother had made her pregnant with me}{\insrsid11943213 , I now realised}{\insrsid16219650 .  }{\insrsid13445171 
\par }{\insrsid16219650 She had the blue-tinged skin of the Royal blue-blood, as did I and which was so unlike the }{\insrsid12478021 creamy pink skin of Inga and Geria.  She also had the long, white flowing hair}{\insrsid8590065 
 which contrasted with the black, rather coarse locks of Geria although Inga\rquote s had started to pale, although with age rather than Royal blood.}{\insrsid16219650 
\par }{\insrsid8590065 Mother}{\insrsid15487680 , though, had }{\insrsid807152 breasts just like Inga\rquote s,  small, round protuberances on her chest with little nipples poking up under the thin}{\insrsid15885236 
 earth-brown silk of her dress and each nipple seemed to be linked by a gold thread to }{\insrsid15340543 that secret place between her legs where I was to place my prick and my seed.  Significantly a third golden thread ran up her dress from her passage}
{\insrsid10361831  }{\insrsid5973141 and }{\insrsid10361831 between her breasts }{\insrsid5973141 towards her throat }{\insrsid10361831 as though linking both with the Founder whose sigil}{\insrsid13842348 atus}{\insrsid10361831  hung at her neck}{
\insrsid13842348  and whose blood still ran pure in our veins.}{\insrsid8590065 
\par }{\insrsid13770606 I lifted my tunic so that mother could see how ready I was.  Her gaze rested on my oak and she nodded again, clearly pleased.}{\insrsid11943213 
\par }{\insrsid16262806 \'93I, and your sister in due course, are the only women you must ever know,\'94 she said, \'93For the Founder\rquote s blood}{\insrsid1143196  must not be mixed with }{\insrsid10760898 that of }{\insrsid1143196 
any mere mortal.  Yet once I have born your sister you may, if you wish, know me merely for the pleasure of it}{\insrsid4591290  for I will bear no more children}{\insrsid11937797 . }{\insrsid13074279  }{\insrsid11937797 
And once your sister has born your son you and I will walk the }{\insrsid10760898 Path of }{\insrsid1402563 Elysium together, for the Blood of the Founder }{\insrsid13331797 will be secured here in the World.\'94}{\insrsid16262806 
\par }{\insrsid5066255 So that was what had happened to her, and my, father and her mother, my grandmother.  I had sometimes idly wondered, but Inga had clearly not wanted to talk about it so I had not insisted.}{\insrsid14024892   In time the fate of 
the Blood in the world would rest entirely with my sister/daughter and her father/brother, which seemed somewhat precarious, }{\insrsid7353864 and}{\insrsid14024892  presumably that was why we lived all our lives here in this mountaintop palace}{
\insrsid4001960  and saw nothing of the world we ruled over except as }{\insrsid13899728 a map spread out at our feet.  }{\insrsid15860601 For a moment I wondered if the wheel of  son begetting sister on mother to become wife and mother}{\insrsid11417328 
 to her son could roll on through time for ever,  but then I saw my mother reach behind her to unfasten the clasps of her dress}{\insrsid5393710  and the clouds around the mountaintop gathered even more thickly about us.}{\insrsid13331797 
\par }{\insrsid2955065 \'93It has been a long time since my brother and }{\insrsid2453016 our}{\insrsid2955065  mother walked the Path of Elysium,\'94 she said with a chuckle}{\insrsid8915646 ,  \'93And }{\insrsid28781 as a woman }{\insrsid8915646 
I have longed for my son\rquote s sixteenth birthday.\'94}{\insrsid2955065 
\par }{\insrsid3676881 She stood and the heavy gold decoration around the top of her dress }{\insrsid5512436 slid down her body, pulling the silk with it}{\insrsid16714593  }{\insrsid2973925 to }{\insrsid3759175 gather discarded}{\insrsid2785203 
 around her feet }{\insrsid16714593 and leav}{\insrsid2785203 e}{\insrsid16714593  her naked apart from the sigil of the Founder around her neck.  My oak throbbed }{\insrsid10244715 eagerly at the sight.}{\insrsid8915646 
\par }{\insrsid10244715 \'93Let the }{\insrsid5308887 W}{\insrsid10244715 heel turn,\'94 my mother cried, and }{\insrsid28781 opened}{\insrsid10244715  her arms }{\insrsid28781 to}{\insrsid10244715  me.
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