Encompassing Love by Richard Lord Page B

clicking?”  Adam asked her.
    She smiled had him realizing she couldn’t hide it from him.  “A little bit.  I’m still not used to it.  I can go to places I can see, but I don’t know how you go to places you can’t see.  Yet.  I’ll figure it out.”
    Tomorrow reached over for him to hand over some water.  Adam obliged and then he said, “But you have a question.”
    “Yes.  How is it people like you and your family and I can do this, but others can’t.”  Tomorrow asked.
    “First may I applaud your work?”  He stood and applauded to her, unsure if she understood the gesture.”  Then he commented, “Most strategists do not follow through with their own plans.  I am impressed.  As for your question, hmm, well I’ve always assumed it was latent in all people, to some extent.  But I think our ancestors went down this path of evolution more so than others.  So it’s genetic.  You remember my explanation of genetics?”
    “Yes.  It was sufficiently long and boring.  But I got the idea.”
    “You still have a question.”  Adam noted.
    “Well.”  Tomorrow paused, then she pointed out what she was wondering.  “How am I related to you?”
    “Hmm, well, I know for sure there is another bloodline that can do similar things.  I suspect thousands of years ago, maybe more, maybe less, we all came from the same, but that doesn’t particularly make us relatives.  If you are from that bloodline.  By that logic, everyone is a relative and while that is relatively true, it’s not an accurate way to describe relative.  I suppose.”  Adam stopped and started getting lost in his own thought.
    “So we aren’t relatives?” Tomorrow asked.
    “Wait a second.  I didn’t say that.  We don’t know who your father is.  Yet.  I suppose we could find out, eventually.”  Adam replied.
    “Is that why you act weird when I want special attention, especially when it’s cold?”  Tomorrow asked bluntly, but with wording meant to ease the edge of the question.
    “Yes.  You are very attractive, Tomorrow, but there are some things I believe are not good.  Some people call them sins.  It’s wise to think that way due to biological reasons called genetics.  It’s simple science.  The wider a gene pool, the greater the result of the offspring.  People of wider gene pools tend to be physically stronger and mentally quicker.  If for instance a mother is from one part of the world and a father from another, the offspring is more adept.  It’s quite literally something one can, or could, have viewed for themselves.”  He saw her begin to say something but then he held up a hand.  “Wait, let me add to that.  I wasn’t suggesting we have kids!  I just mean science can also help us have a moral compass.”
    “I understand.”  Tomorrow said as she sipped the water and looked at her prize by the fire pit.
    “Tomorrow, when the sun rises, I’ll take you someplace nearby that you should see.”  Adam raised his hand to the sky noting the sun was going down. “For now, let’s start getting the feathers off that so we can roast it.  We’ll also want to boil some water and hold our hands in it while it is still hot and definitely toss the feathers in it when it is at full boil.”
    “What’s wrong with feathers?  I think they look beautiful.”  Tomorrow asked while making her own point.
    “After they boil, you can make something out of them if you would like.  I can show you how.  But first, we boil them.  While it is rarer for a bird like a hawk that spends most of its time on the move and a lot of it in the air, birds get lice.  They are tiny creatures, but they bite.  The bites are itchy so people tend to scratch at them opening wounds that can get infected.”  Adam saw her look.  So he added.  “It’s okay, they shouldn’t be able to survive the water if it’s boiling.”
    “But we can’t boil ourselves.  What if they climb on us while we are taking off the