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I promised to help Yumi's work it all off..today!
We'd just finished breakfast when the radio chirped for attention. I went
and turned the speaker on, thinking it was Joel. It was an official announce-
ment, much too late, that simply stated the problem, that people were working
around the clock to solve it (sure! Uh-Huh! I bet!). Joel's signal came up
just after the official announcement. I tuned him in.
"Well, you were right." He said triumphantly. "The wind carries it."
"C'mon Joel." I said, "Don't hold out. What the fuck is 'IT'?"
Joel explained that the purple flowers that bloom at the beginning of the
summer release a spoor-like seed. This seed has a coating that acts like a
pollen and an enzyme. If (or we should say when) someone inhales it, it acts
on the human system as an aphrodisiac, lowering inhibitions and letting the
sexual urges come forth. Fortunately for the colony, these flowers only bloom
once a year, otherwise we'd be up to our necks in kids. Joel said that it
would take years, maybe decades to find the equivialant of an "anti-histamine"
for it. I told him not to bother. We could grow these plants in hot-houses
and collect the spoors for export as a true aphrodisiac. Joel
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