518 said,"I hope Neon comes back soon! I don't know who I'll be with for those Tapponok sex movies. Hey,TWL! Have you and Jahntu already done yours?" Tall White Lady laughed,"Yes--though NOT that you or anyone else on our home planet will EVER see it! It is degrading. I know they might be curious, but really! I should have...", there was a loud chime in the air, interrupting speech. They fell quiet as they looked towards the door. Sunshine came in and paused at the top of the Nano-pit.She asked,"Why does everyone just stop and stare at us kids when we come into a room? It makes ME uncomfortable!" Bluebell sighed, as she paused in her holographic construction, and remarked,"We were discussing adult matters, best left out of the earshot of children,little sister. When you're older, then we can have an open and direct discussion of such things. Until Mom says alright, the subject is just not possible to talk about. There is just to many other things going on. Mom's 'parental controls on free speech aside, what's on your mind?" Sunshine said,"I'm bored out of my mind! Can't I get off the ship for a small while, just look around outside? What are all those people doing? Is there going to be a concert? Are the Tapponok communists? What are you BUILDING?" TWl and 518 broke out laughing, and 518 pointed at Bluebell and exclaimed,"Well, what do you know? We were just talking about them! Well, DOCTOR Bluebell, she came to the ship's anthropologist for a reason! Get to it!" Bluebell rolled her eye and said,"In order--NO,getting ready to honor us for saving them at some kind of ceremony tomorrow,there might be music--I don't really know,No--they are not communists! They use money like most of the rest of the Galaxy. Their monetary system is based on something more slippery than our monetary base..." 518 roared with laughter and had to lean on the wall. TWL guffawed and remarked,"I CANNOT believe you just said THAT aloud!" Bluebell blinked and said,"According to my understanding to their constantly changing trade value system, it normally appears chaotic, but really it's really tight and consistent with--WOULD YOU TWO STOP LAUGHING SO HARD! I'm trying to answer SUnny's question about money and trade and... OH! Oh my!" Bluebell broke up then. TWL exclaimed,"Oh come-come,Blue! You are the 'old married lady' in the room!" Bluebell laughed harder. Sunshine looked exasperated and exclaimed,"Why do adults sound so STUPID some times? FINE! Can you at least answer what it THAT holo you're building?" Bluebell said,"Using mathematical tools that the Haen gave us to express anthropological concepts of reaction and action. The green ring at the bottom represents their territory. The red, large,thin ring their aggression. The blue, yellow and green shell is their sexuality. the inner blue shell is their higher brain functions of creativity and such. I was about to insert their their pink, animal brain shell all the way inside..." 518 broke up again. TWL exclaimed,"DO NOT make me come over their and smack you! You want me to go all Rose on your head?" 518 covered his scalp and laughed harder. Bluebell tittered. She said,"If Sunny and mine's mom WERE here, we would be on thin ice! You know that motherhood IS a work-in-progress! I married a human man, Violet is terrified of sexual relations, and my mother,Rose, doesn't want to screw up any more children, so IS trying her hardest to maintain some equilibrium between fear and desire for Sunny. It WOULD be SO EASY to wreck the rest of her life by making the WRONG decision NOW!" Sunshine blinked. 518 laughed,"Never mention Tapponok and screwing in the same discussion!" TWL snapped,"You better run,Marine!" 518 ducked and ran out the door with a loud,"UH-OH", chased by TWL. Sunny said,"Boys are so stupid! Blue laughed. --to be continued!--