Toxic said in her high-pitched 'Pengy' voice,"I eat you head now! NOM-NOM-NOM!" China kept reaching for the puppet, and finally grabbed it and bit it. Toxic said,"Ow! Hey, she's got little teeth already? My..your baby is a fast developer!" Bluebell laughed. Janno put a hand on the articulated table and pointed at Toxic and said,,"Look here...we love you to death,Toxic, but you have been acting flaky since the baby was born! Even for YOU! What's up? I know Measure wasn't happy with trading your cabin with us...the question I have is WHY? You broke down crying seeing little China for the first time." Bluebell said,"EVERYONE has been acting a bit weird about my baby. Look, I know she has three eyes and half her cells are human and half are Cyclops, but everyone knew that to begin with! Sunny just looked! She's a little chatterbox with opinions about EVERYTHING! She just stared and stared. Even my mom wasn't very talkative. You look at her with tears in your eyes. WHAT IS GOING ON?" Toxic let the laughing baby take her Pengy and start chewing on it. Toxic said,"I met her seven or eight months ago. On the observation deck. She's a ghost from the future... a whatchicallit...'harbinger'? You KNOW i have a power or something about knowing people when I meet them, of know who they are?" Janno said,"That's impossible. She was born two months ago. She'd have to be a time-traveler, for you to..." He trailed off seeing the look in Toxic's eyes. Toxic said,"Yep. Came back with a grown Sunshine, Lime and River Prince with some Altha-Krommium thingy they found on Earth. I never saw them. Just my beloved China, who I raised." Bluebell jumped out of her seat and exclaimed,"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Toxic sagged. "THAT is what tore me up,too! Sometimes I get little feelings like that. Like,'Doctor Telloq, who I will kill' and stuff like that. I never got one like what I felt when I met China! It really scared me! I DO NOT want to raise YOUR baby! I still call her 'MINE' when I don't pay attention! I don't want either of you to die! THAT is why I swapped cabins with you! If you were on the lower hull and we crashed...BOOM, you're all dead! It feels better, but not enough. I don't know what else I can do to alter your fates!" Janno said,"Have you talked this over with the Captain? Rose? Anyone else?" Toxic nodded. "They don't know. I'm not precog-anative? Whatever. I can't see the future, just people and know who they are!" Bluebell said,"Why did they come back? To warn us?" Toxic said,"The Four Brothers blew up all the galaxy's livable planets, and WE blew up pretty good,too. Rose got--gets killed by Lord Death after the Nautilus gets shot down on Earth. They freak out about people from space, because they're stupid or something, and things go to crap pretty fast. This is all secret and stuff, but I don't CARE! If my favorite people die...!" Toxic choked up. Bluebell came around and hugged her. Toxic choked out,"China was a little chatterbox. Really nice." Janno straightened up suddenly. "I need to talk to the Captain. I have an idea that maybe only a racer might have! I'll be back soon!" He ran to the door and winked at Bluebell. "Hold the line,Blue!" He ran out the door at a sprint. Bluebell sighed,"Racers! Hunh!" Toxic said,"I hope Captain Tkarro won't be too mad with me." Bluebell said,"If it saves us AND helps us complete the mission, I'm sure he's open to options. Humans are inspired, Cyclops are methodical." Toxic looked in Bluebell's eye and asked," 'Where's there's Method, there's madness'?" Bluebell said,"PIM-POM! WRONG!" She smacked Toxic on the forehead and laughed."NO, Cyclops look from all sides, but humans jump right to answer, sometimes! When they're right...it saves time and lives. I hope Janno is right." Toxic reached over and patted China on the head. "I hope so! I don't want to be your mommy. Mostly." Bluebell gave her an odd look. --To be continued!--