This was it, the moment of truth. OK, so it wasn't the moment of truth, but whatever it was, it hurt so bad Kass couldn't stand it. Everyone was talking, but the extreme pain that flowed through her body as she tried to lay her egg without passing out kept her from being able to tell who said what.

"Push, Kass! Push!"

"Someone boil some water!"

"For crying out loud! It's an EGG, not a human!"

"Kass? Are you OK?"

"You twit, she's laying an egg! What do you think?"

Kass grunted hard, and pushed one last bit. The egg was fianly laid, but the pain hadn't quite gone away. "Oh gosh.." Kass gasped.

"I'll get you something for the pain." Katherine offered, but as she turned to leave, Kass fell asleep, so she figured there was no reason too.

Karr squatted down, and looked at the small, light blue swirley egg. "Our baby.." he whispered, running a paw gingerly over the shell. Norn eggs in truth are very hard, but Karr didn't know this, so he was very careful not to break it. "Thank you so much." He whispered to Kass, even though she was asleep.

Jenna knelt down beside Kass. "Let her sleep, she's had a very hard day."

* * * * *

Crik.

Crik-Crak.

Crika-Craka

Crackle Crackle.

Kass finaly woke up. She had been asleep for quite awhile, she couldn't rember how long. It all slowly filed into her mind, as she saw her egg with a small line forming around it.

"It's hatching!" She squealed. Katherine, Susan and Blip scrambled out of Katherine's room (They had been in the middle of a heated Nintendo Match.) as Karr and Jenna scrambled out of the kitchen. Everyone clumsily filed in a circle around the egg as the line around it grew. Finaly, the little egg cracked in half, and a small norn pushed off the shell. It winced from the light, but then peered over the egg, looking out at its mommy.

"Bibble!" It shouted. The baby was a little girl, who had Kass' blond hair and dark arms, and Karr's purple body and speckled Banana legs. The girl tipped the shell and started to crawl a few steps, then fell over into Kass' lap.

"We've got a daughter..." Kass sighed as she stroked the soft, blond hair that covered the baby's head.

Karr squatted down and tickled his new daughter. "What do we name her?"

"It's a 12th generation, so it needs to start with an L." Reminded Katherine.

"Lydia!" Jenna suggested. "Why not Lydia? I always wanted to name my baby Lydia if I ever had a girl."

"Alright then," Kass stated, looking around at the faces and realizing it was something very important to everyone, "We'll name her Lydia." She then held the baby out to Jenna. "Do you want to hold her?"

Jenna nervosly looked at Lydia. It had been so long since she had been near a baby so tiny. She gingerly accepted, and cradeled Lydia best she knew how. "Those are my legs.." she sighed happily. Lydia swung her arm around a bit, then reached up and grabbed Jenna's ear. As she gummed it, Jenna noticed something: A white line had graced the edge of the ear. She pulled down her other ear, only to discover another white line. Looking up at the slightly shocked faces of everyone, she decided she was entitled to an explanation.

Luckily, Katherine offered one as only she can. "Y-you're a pensioneer!" Katherine gasped.

"Are you sure?" Jenna asked.

"Jenna," Blip replied, "I'd bet my battery on it. Your ears have white lines on them, your eyes are drooping.. even your eyebrows are white."

"Don't worry-" Susan offered, quickly seeing Jenna's spirit drop thanks to the frankness of her unusualy insensitive friends, "You look fine!"

Jenna sat stunned for a minute. Then, she looked down at Lydia, who was still gumming her ear. "I'm fine. There's more important things anyway. When can we teach her?"

Katherine grinned, then took the newborn. "I'm sure the HoloDeck attachment can work on her." The whole prossetion filed into Katherine's room, where she placed Lydia on the HoloDeck and fitted the tube over the contraption. She then switched it on, and the usual happened (Letters flew around, there was a humming, ect..), and then it wound down.

"Mama!" Lydia shouted, crawling tword her dad. She then threw her arms around his waste, and tried to stand up.

"Lydia?" Karr asked. "I'm your dad."

"Katherine?" Susan started, "Is there any possibility that she has some sort of mental dissorder?"

"Well," Blip added, "We did discover some sort of mutation brewing when we did the Lab test on Kass. Something about a disablility in an organ in the head."

"Wait a minute!" Susan snapped her fingers. For once, she may have outsmarted Katherine and Blip both. She bent down tword Lydia, took her own glasses off, and placed them on Lydia. "Can you see any better"?

Lydia adjusted the glasses abit, then exclaimed, "Dis is better.."

Susan then turned tword some figure that she assumed was Katherine. "See, Katherine? She's just nearsighted!"

"Wow," the figure replied, "You must be really blind without your glasses. I'm Blip."

Katherine removed the glasses from Lydia. "May I borrow these to make a duplacate?" she asked Susan.

"Sure!" Susan exclaimed, pleased that she had finaly figured something out on her own.

"Better hurry before she runs into some large object and knocks herself unconsious." Blip mused.

* * * * *

It was later in the day. Susan, Katherine, Jenna and Blip were sitting under a tree in Katherine's Mom's Garden watching Kass and Karr play with their new child, whom now had a nice pair of glasses thanks to Susan.

"Will you listen to something for me?" Susan asked.

Katherine and Blip looked like deer caught in headlights. They knew what was comming next. Jenna gave them both a death look and replied, "I'd love to hear it."

"It's a poem I've written." Susan stated. Then she began to read her poem, which went like this:

Our story so far...

The winds ruffel the trees

Blows past the homes

And brings change

Change is inevitible

Babies grow to children

Children grow to adolecents

Adolecents grow to adults

Adults fall in love

And so it starts again

A new child

A new blossom

A new fold in the blanket

A new chapter in the story

A new tale to unravel

Eventualy, the wind blows again

Bringing change once more

The adults get old and grey

And the children take their place

In society, but never in our hearts.

And so it goes...

"Uhm..." Katherine started. She was treading on thin ice. She could choose the traditional insult, or a more contemperaroy back-handed complement. "Groovy!" She exclaimed, going with the latter.

Blip followed suit with "Deep?"

Jenna glared at them both, and answered, "I liked it, Susan."

"Thank you, JENNA." Susan replied. "And thanks to the rest of the audience for the left-handed compliments."

"What's so bad about being left handed? I'm left-handed, Blip is wired to think left-handedly..." Katherine rambled.

Karr interrupted her by running past the tree, chasing a squeeling Lydia.

"Where's Kass?" called Blip.

Karr stopped momentarily. "She went back to Albia, she said there was something she wanted to get."

Kass had, in truth, found her way back to Albia. She was deep underground, in the cellars, trying to find a hootch cup. Grabbing one tucked behind the hootch mashine, she filled it, then looked inside. Kass liked hootch very much, but she sometimes felt guilty about drinking it. Was there a possiblility she was dependent on it? "No", she thought, "I can quit anytime I want too." She then tilted the cup up and began to drink.