Thunder Dome plan a pretty picnic

"Hah, that's always the problem, isn't it? Women are great and very capable on their own. And, when I was a whelp, there was a time I sincerely believed that you could get pregnant just like that, on your own and did not need any assistance," Apple shared one of the few childhood memories she could still recall clearly. "But there has been at least one well-documented case of a miraculous conception, where no man took part in it," she added, leaving out the specifics, but vaguely referring to very well-known top-bestseller for about many, many hundred years in the human world. But since Apple was a bit shallow, when it came to literature and other complicated stuff, she memorized the most interesting facts. And often she would never recall, where she had heard it in the first place and in what context.

"Haven't seen such miracle in my life-time though," she added, though without much regret in her voice. While giving birth had been painful and exhausting, she was not such a hypocritical old hag to deny that she had not enjoyed the whole courting process and The Process, when it had taken place. Many of several good memories of her long life. "Anyway... where were we, before I rambled away?" she asked, scratching behind her ear, and trying very hard to get back on the track of their earlier conversation..