Britomart frowned a little and shook her head as she looked at the machine.<span style="color: #ff0000"> "no, it all looks exactly as it should. power is getting to the motor, the gears all line up, the reversing mechanism looks right... the damned thing just doesn't turn and i have ripped more then a little hair out."</span><br/><br/>Relene reached up to rub her head and then sighed angrily. "people can't control how they feel and i don't expect them to. but she doesn't actually care about me, she just feels guilty and wants to make herself feel better and then i am the one who will be hurt again when she goes back to ignoring me. she certainly wouldn't be the first person to do that to me and she is a Succubus, i don't expect her to stay interested in anyone she can't have sex with for long." she shook her head and frowned. "and it may not be fair of me but i will never forgive either of them for taking my mother away from me... for just five days i had mom all to myself, she held me all the time, she sang to me, nursed me and cared about nothing else in the world but me. then she met those two and suddenly i was an afterthought, taken care of but otherwise ignored. i hate them both almost more then i can stand."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>