>Found it! Blame Doc for this:

Oh, fine...make me your scapegoat. :-)

>
>Reika was out. She'd left this year, in search of Gryphon. {I
>hope she finds him...although, I think Ben'll be mildly surprised
>to find that he's...} He put the thought out of his mind.
>Although he'd found that out quite by accident, it wasn't really any
>of his business.

Okay, now where exactly can you read into the sentence that UF Gryphon impregnated Reika with his love child? It could be read as any number of things.

Without going into too much detail, it's been established that Detians could prevent pregnancy by biocontrol (e.g., Kei). Considering the circumstances of that time period, it'd probably be in UF Gryphon's best interests to *not* leave behind a kid to suffer the slings and arrows against Ben's name, and exercise precautions.

At the time I wrote that passage, it was meant for something. The story arc may change where it could be interpreted for something else. Read into it whatever you may, I'm not telling. <grin>

Speaking of change, I'm going to have to revise some facts in the LY stories...minor ones, like backing up Keriyn's DOB about 10 years to take into account Salusian aging (which I wasn't aware of at the time), as well as the kids birthdays. More details, you ask? Sorry...that's all you're getting. ;-)

--DocMui