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    The Lonoki Solution
    The Lonoki Solution
    The Lonoki Solution
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    The Lonoki Solution

    By Sharon L Reddy

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    This is a love story between a lon and a nok.

    Overpopulation had been a terrible threat. Voluntary birth control just wasn't working. A well-meaning genetics researcher had linked the release of egg and sperm, though not orgasm, to the emotion of love. It was an incredible feat, but the link had been too strong.

    No one knew why some had become masters and some slaves, but it bred true and began to divide the species. Masters' strongest love was for their twins. If they were exposed to another pair of twins from the time they were infants and knew and loved them enough, at maturity they could make love as two couples and produce four children. If a master fell in love with a slave, he or she could not command the slave to reproduce with another slave.

    Dane was magnificent, brilliant and beautiful. The world needed his children, but he was slave in name only. He must become one for Kiev, or he would sire none.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSharon L Reddy
    Release dateJun 6, 2011
    ISBN9781583383698
    The Lonoki Solution
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    Sharon L Reddy

    I write science fiction romance, but it's the literary definition of romance. Swashbuckle, Baby, in "white tie and tails." High romantic fantasies, million word mysteries, family sagas, statesmen, gurus and wise immortals. Loving dads, sons and brothers, and of course, the women who understand and appreciate them. High fashion and landscape design. Materials and art, the books are built to be read very fast, specifically for the way women visualize. Research on the soap operas of the fifties, trends in international populist (fan) fiction, technological development, and above all, long-term entertainment value. It has to be good in reruns. The intent is create a body of work that's just fun to read, in spurts or bursts over decades. Ethics, responsibility, nobless oblige, the power of money, the use of prestige. I write good guys win. Period. They're fantasies for women. Men with lots of muscle say, "I love you," a lot.Most of what is currently published was written in the first decade, 1991-1999, before Mother Nature changed my personal definition of "mature audience." I hope you'll remain with me as I and my work mature and enjoy the second decade of my work now being published, as well.I've lived many places and visited far more. My current residence is on a high mesa in New Mexico, in the United States, where I am engaged in a habitat restoration project.Explanation of the Pilots Group:Some of these works have been sitting on my hard drive close to twenty years and they're no fun for anyone just sitting there. They're exactly what they've been titled, pilots, like for a TV series. It is my intent and hope that other writers will choose to continue the adventures of the characters. There are only three restrictions. Don't kill off my heroes, don't make good guys bad guys and give my story credit if you publish. Yes, you may publish and make money on your stories. I loved reading and writing fan fiction, but the limitations on it could be frustrating, so... Have fun with these works that specifically don't have them.

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      The Lonoki Solution - Sharon L Reddy

      Sharon L Reddy

      The Lonoki Solution

      © 2011

      Target Yonder

      Smashwords Edition

      ISBN 978-1-58338-369-8

      Chapter One

      Kiev touched Jarun to wake him. He pulled her down and kissed her before he even opened his eyes. He smiled, stretched and opened them in that order. They were always startling, deep blue gems set in the golden frame of his face and outlined by the sweep of his long black lashes. He rolled off the platform and she backed and giggled, as he made a grab for her when he did. It was an old game and he hadn't made the grab in quite some time. If he'd caught her, they'd both have been back on the sleeping platform for quite some time. She wasn't adverse to the idea, at all, but they had things to do that morning.

      Mother awaits us, Jarun. She wishes to get to the market early, and since Uncle Tarun is supervising the construction of the new wing of the house, you and I must go with her.

      I'll carefully select those which she has chosen at the market. I am tempted to choose other, but Mother has such good taste in things I wouldn't be able to improve upon it. Candred whispered to me last night that she's ready, Kiev.

      I'm not, Jarun. I love Candred and I love Trennon very much, but I am not ready to become a mother. The desire to have children just isn't there, yet.

      Be careful, sister of my birth and loved life companion. Too many souls are torn when one chooses a third. If one loves unwisely, the duty is not fulfilled.

      Jarun, I am not going to fall in love with a slave. I will love them. They will love me and I will love in return. Trennon is my chosen mate. I will bear him children. No one can usurp his place as the male whose seed I will want to fulfill the duty to have children.

      You separate it so well, my loved sister.

      Jarun, I am not fixing you dinner tonight.

      Oh, Kiev, no one can make a stew like you can.

      If you chop the vegetables yourself, I will make stew. Telling Mara to do it isn't fair.

      She likes everything I tell her to do, Kiev.

      They all like everything you tell them to do, gorgeous, and we both know it. You love every one of your slaves and they adore you. Don't close your eyes again. Only a male can choose a female slave. You are expected to seek advice on the family members we're buying though.

      I've always liked what Mother picked out before. It makes sense to lean on her experience and good taste in any purchase. What positions are we buying?

      We're buying four slaves total. I like the slaves mother chose for me, Jarun, but they are going to choose other homes. They know I'll sell them if they find the right one and all of them are looking. I want one who won't ever choose another master. I want a male for me this time. I want a body slave. I need a manager in my apartments if I'm going to have children. I won't until I'm ready, Jarun. When I am, I will have them by Trennon. I'm far too practical to choose to have no children. The emotional attachment I have to you, to Candred and to him is quite firm. We know who and what we are. The moment of overwhelming love when the two and two make the cousins, is the truth of us. If one gives it to the wrong person, five have no children. I love you and will share my life with you, but I'm ready to build my household.

      Our sex life has always been good, Kiev.

      She told her brother his sex was known to be that of a true artist, and if he wanted a compliment, he'd have to tell his slaves to stop being awed long enough to give him one. He bowed elegantly and they stood among the mirrors, which fragmented the space of his room, while she handed him clothes that had been draped on the pillows strewn across the floor by his slaves, as suggestion he wear them. The slaves used it as a form of lottery. If he chose an item one had placed there, she would be one of those who shared his sleeping platform that night. Their uncle was building him huge apartments. He had more slaves begging him to buy them.

      Slaves were commanded to have children. Slaves loved masters. The duty of the master was accept the love they gave and strengthen it so they were willing to accept the command to reproduce. Jarun fascinated, and was loved by, many female slaves. Masters and slaves had begun as the same species. They weren't any longer, and it had all been a well-intentioned mistake.

      Overpopulation had been a terrible threat. Involuntary conception had once been a survival characteristic. It had become destructive to the species. Voluntary birth control just wasn't working. A well-meaning genetics researcher had linked the release of egg and sperm, though not orgasm, to the emotion of love. It was an incredible feat, but the link had been too strong. The love had to be fostered for life to be strong enough in some people. That wasn't known until the emergency measure of increasing the libido of the species had been taken. That known, another well-intentioned mess was created when 'suggestibility' was introduced, so a loved person could help widen the gene pool by instructing one to be fertile for another. Then twin birth had been introduced. One after another, the mistakes were piled atop each other. The outcome was the way of the world.

      No one knew why some had become masters and some slaves, but it bred true and began to divide the species. Masters' strongest love was for their twins. If they were exposed to another pair of twins from the time they were infants and knew and loved them enough, at maturity they could make love as two couples and produce four children. If a master fell in love with a slave, he or she could not command the slave to reproduce with another slave.

      The master must love without being in love, because the slave knew if the real desire was for children with the slave, and not the slave have children with another. If one of the four who should have four children, eight if conception could be accomplished twice, was in love with a slave, none of them would have children. Slaves only had children if masters commanded it and they must be slaves their whole lives to accept the right of the master to give the command when it came. It must also come from the master the slave was in love with. They would not lie to themselves. They were born to the role of masters and slaves and if the not-large genetic pool of the masters was not maintained, the lonoki species would die out. They were surviving and would allow no more tampering with their genetic structure. Each solution tried had made it worse.

      Masters chose slaves to be part of loving families. Each had several and some had many. If a slave fell in love with another master, the slave was sold to that master. Slaves were twins too, but they did not require the lifetime association with the twin and another set of twins to trigger fertility, only the intense love for a master and the command to conceive. Two slaves and two masters were needed to bring a set of slave twins into the world, but the masters need not be lovers and the slaves need not even be acquainted.

      Masters owned homes, businesses and slaves. Slaves maintained those homes and worked in those businesses. They were as intelligent and educated as the masters, but they had to be slaves. Masters spent a great deal of time fulfilling the physical needs of the slaves who loved them. If they did not, the bond would not be strong enough when the order was given to conceive.

      Kiev was ready to begin choosing males to give her love. Jarun loved his girls and they were in love with him. She loved the male slaves her mother and uncle had chosen for her, but knew they were not in love with her. She didn't want them to be. It was time for her to begin choosing the males who would be part of her household all their lives. It was time for her to choose a body slave. His primary job was watch over her slaves and help her find others who would love her enough she could command them to have children. Gedin was Jarun's body slave. She made sure none of the other female slaves lacked for attention.

      Kiev expected their family to have a great many more female than male slaves in it. Jarun was an accomplished lover and loved females, period, though his deep love was for her, Candred and Trennon. She would probably not have more than four or five males. She didn't have Jarun's gift of loving and accepting the adoration of many. Few did. Their household would be full of the children of the many slaves he loved and her males would father children for other households as well as theirs.

      Their family was extremely wealthy. The slaves would work to make it wealthier, so all their children lived well. She would choose superb males, beautiful and intelligent. She could afford to have them well-educated. Because she would choose very few and they would be the very best, she would probably have to command them often. Many would want the seed of the premium males she could afford to own. The fees received for it would go to the household fund for education of the slave children. The fee for the seed of a male always did in their economic class.

      Slaves were bred. The masters chose to whom, though often the slave suggested. The Masters' Slave Breeding Commission, usually called the breeding council, suggested as well, though primarily just when a slave was considered premium. Slaves were becoming more intelligent and more deeply loving of their masters each generation. The one thing the masters would not do was breed for docility.

      Every generation of slaves was taught why there were masters and slaves. Every generation, masters fell in love with slaves and five had no children. There was no stigma attached. Love was never wrong. If every slave was not worthy of love, the system wouldn't work at all. Sometimes a master fell in love with the loved friend of the set of twins chosen from the narrow genetic pool with whom they would share children. Most often a master was in love with the twin.

      The capability of love was essential. One could give it the best opportunity possible, but love was the sharing of souls and falling in love just happened. It was always wonderful, and some foursomes of masters could have eight children. Falling in love with a slave was most likely among the very wealthy. Their slaves were brilliant and beautiful. Their family owned a starship-building company. Their slaves were scientists and engineers. They needed two engineers and a really good cook.

      Beyond that, Kiev wanted a male of her choosing for herself. He would be expected to be able to do anything that needed doing, from planting a garden, spending nineteen days in an enviro suit working on ship construction in space, to three days without break on a computer, when a research team needed assistance. He would be her mind and hands wherever they were needed. She was ready to choose her body slave. Her work was beginning to require more time than she had already. It was time to begin training one to be everything she wanted and needed.

      He would be brilliant, beautiful and she'd possess him completely. She'd probably have to breed him more, because his seed was needed. It was estimated that all slaves would be more beautiful and intelligent than most masters in fifty generations. Of course, masters showed "an odd tendency to just get

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