Jenna pulled her ear out in front of her face, and peered around it. She was looking in the mirror in Katherine's room, checking for any grey streaks anywhere. Jenna was nearly a pensioneer, and like most people who are getting older, she was a bit worried about what she'd look like. To tell the truth, she was sort of old to begin with when she had Karr. She could of been 7, maybe 8 hours old. She didn't quite rember, which worried her even more, because they say that the memory is the first thing to go. Then the looks (Not that she had any extrordanary looks to begin with, because after all, she WAS a banana norn.), then joints, then... well, it wasn't nice to think about. Jenna let out a heavy sigh and started checking her eyelids for any sign of drooping.

"Mom?" Karr poked his head through the doorway to Katherine's room. Jenna turned to look, and instead of the child/adolecent she usualy saw, there was her "little boy", who had turned into an adult.

"Oh..." gushed Jenna, "You- You grew..." She hugged him.

Just then, there was a minor explosion, as Susan, Blip, and a soot covered Katherine scrambled into the room.

"ONE of these days," Katherine declared, taking off her labcoat and giving it a good shake before hanging it up, "I WILL get that Glycotoxin thing figured out."

"If you don't kill yourself first." Blip mused.

Karr backed away from his mom, and walked up to Katherine. "Uhm, pardon me, but.." he started shyly.

"Oh! Wait a minute-" Katherine bent down to Karr. "You've grown. My gosh, the boy's fertile!" She gave him a big scritch. And then Karr hand to listen to compliments and bear scritches for a few minutes. Then Katherine stood up. "If you'll pardon me, I have to go see if the explosion set anything on fire." She pinched Karr's cheeks, and left, with Blip by her side. (Actualy, since he's pretty small, I guess you could say 'by her shoulder.')

"And," Susan added, "I have to go make sure she doesn't kill herself or something." She then skipped out of the room.

Karr turned to his mom, rubbing the cheek Katherine pinched. "Why are humans like that?"

Jenna shook her head. "They're insane, I think. But then again, it was a human who made us. That 'Toby Simpson' guy." Then, changing the subject, she asked, "Are my ears starting to get grey streaks?"

"Mom!" Karr scolded.

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It was late at night. Jenna sat up on the floor of Katherine's room. She took a peek over at Karr, who was asleep, making that cryptic snoring noise that all norns make. Crawling over to Katherine's bed, she hoisted herself up, and gently shook Katherine.

"Oh..." Katherine mumbled in her sleep, "No, no more naven boys...no more naven boys... hail pez..."

Jenna shook harder. Katherine made a sort of 'Snork' noise, and rose up with a start.

"No! The Naven Boys will never overthrow the Pez Leader!" She shouted. Then, looking becide her, she saw Jenna. "Oh," she gasped with a sigh of relief, "It's just you!"

"Katherine, what in the- No, wait. I don't want to know. Anyway, can I ask you something?" Jenna asked.

Katherine blinked a few times. Then, trying to be understanding, she shook her head. "What?"

"As you probobly figured, I'm about to be a pensioneer.." Jenna began. "I'm 8 creatures hours.."

"Jenna..." Katherine scolded.

"8 and a half?" Jenna tried.

"Don't lie about your age." reminded Katherine.

"Fine! 9 hours old." Jenna admitted. "Anyway, I was wondering, would there ever be a possibility that I could have granchildren?"

"I think that would be up to Karr." Katherine honestly `replied.

"No, I meant.. since you pick all the breeding pairs.. is there a girl you had lined up for Karr?" Jenna rephrased her question.

"'Smatterafact," Katherine admitted, "I usualy pick pairs by who a norn 'runs around with' all the time. But since you ask..." She reached to the foot of her bed, and pulled up her laptop. She flipped the monitor up & hit the space bar. The screen lit up, and there was Albia, on pause. In the center of the screen was a dark horse norn with fox legs. "Jenna," Katherine announced, "Meet Kass. She's a bit of a loner, never really talks with other norns in Albia. I'm hoping that she and Karr will be 'successful', because frankly, they both have genes I want to get into my generations."

Jenna took a closer look at the screen. "I've always been horribly jealous of norns with hair." she giggled. "But she looks very nice."

"Satisfied?" Katherine asked.

"Very." Jenna replied.

"Great. Now if you'll pardon me, I want to get back to sleep." Katherine flipped the monitor of her laptop down, & rolled over on her side,

"Katherine?" Jenna interupted. "May I sleep in your bed tonight?"

Katherine sighed. "Sure." Anything so she could get some sleep.

Jenna flopped on her belly and started making that snoring noise, indicating she was asleep.

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"Katherine?"

"Katherine?"

"Katherine, darnit, get up!"

Blip was nudging at Katherine's feet, calling for her.

Katherine rose up sleepily. "Blip, what is it?"

"You left your computer on. A norn is being beat up by the grendel! I can hear it!" He answered.

"Pardon?" Katherine grabbed the laptop from the end of her bed, and flipped up the top. Sure enough, the computer hadn't fallen alseep due to an error message from Norn Pose. She cleared everything up, then switched to Creatures. Sure enough there was a grendel beating a norn- but the norn he was beating was Kass.