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Ambloome recalls all amulets, while Braisyde and Jenyfer marry and settle in the Norwegian Viking village.
“…Anyone who wants to come and live here will be just conveyed
By myself, and any one of them who wishes they’d not stayed
Will be taken back to earth at their request, not your dictation.
It’s no wonder some have come here to escape your leader’s nation.”

From that moment, every amulet was quickly taken back,
To be regulated by the Queen. She hung them on a rack.
Some were giant sized, while others had been made to suit the little
Earthling visitors, when Alicindra managed her acquittal.

Ambloome called a secret meeting with her trusted oldest team:
Braisyde, Jenyfer and Lee-John, who were loyal to her dream.
Then she told them, “I have reached the point of starting prohibition.
Giants will not visit earth again. I’ve cancelled my permission …

…Only Jenyfer and I can go, so long as we reduce
And attire ourselves like earthlings, all before we make the use
Of small amulets to go there, only with the best of reasons
Based on planetary security, or private springtime seasons…

…If I let our people go back there, it really won’t equate
To the rules that I’ve been laying down for earthling men of late,
Not to visit our world, unless they’re approved and then escorted
By myself. I’m not impressed by things to which their force resorted…

…If they never know it’s only us, they won’t perceive a threat.
It was safer back when Lester had the only amulet.
This has all become too widely known, with awful repercussions
In the last few years. But now it’s time to put off more discussions.”

Ambloome led the hunt for purchased soldiers, learning of the bribes,
And the women who had paid them. Then she utilized her scribes
To record the spoken evidence, and set about recruiting
Some replacement soldiers for her palace guard, with much saluting.

Soon the wealthy wives had been arrested, and the kidnapped boys
Were returned to their new cities. Only one of them had poise,
To be taken back to earth. He’d found the whole thing such a trauma,
That he would have been the first to help the president’s informer.

With the wives imprisoned for a while, the husbands had to wait,
Just as earthling Viking Tennyce did, for penance served by Kayte.
Ambloome learned that both dimensions had received too much exposure,
To each other. Now she felt that both were much in need of closure.

Since they had more time, without Seattle Station as their task,
Braisyde thought about a lot of things, and took the chance to ask
Jenyfer if she would marry him. She did, and then next Autumn,
Said, “My love. We don’t have baby clothes. I think it’s time we bought some.”

So they stayed at Braisyde’s place in Norway. Jenyfer stayed small.
If she had the child at giant size, the baby would out-crawl
Its own father’s moves to match the pace. They thought they’d save the chattels,
If the father wasn’t smaller than the child’s first toys and rattles.

When the girl was born, they’d sometimes visit giant world, equipped
With a dolls house they could live in, while the mother sometimes slipped
Up to giant size (which baby Maura might one day be able
To accomplish) but for now at least their parenting was stable.
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