Philly had seen her mother reproduce the species the icky way,but
Philly also had known that a person such as herself,made entirely of Fast Light,could
use other means.
She just stared impassively at the panting old man,who wass holding out the Maid Marion
outfit to her,then she made her move.
Reaching out as if to take the offered garment,suddenly a bolt of Fast Light shot out of her hand
and plugged the old gent in the chin.
Quarks eyes rolled in the back of his head and he plopped unconscious to the laboratory floor.
This was a huge oven off to one side and after checking Quark still had a pulse,Philly went to the
oven and lit its fires.
Then she went to Quark and cradling his head in her hands,concentrated.
As she felt inside his body for his mind and soul,she drew the two things out of him through his mouth.
The two spinning globes of sentient conscious energies spun around each another,hovering in the air above
Quarks body,tethered to it by a cord that bound the body,mind and soul of Quark together.
Without a second thought Philly projected a pair of scissors,and cut the cord.
The soulless mindless body immediately began to convulse,and its breathing and heartrate began to falter.
Philly ignored the dying now useless mortal flesh and instead directed her
mind to Quarks life force.
Now Philly at the tender age of seven was only capable of reproducing /copying her ownself.
She drew out her own reserves of Fast Light,and enclosed Quarks mind and soul in Fast Light,till
where two spinning globes had been now hovered a red eyed baby girl.
She left the new entity hang there,lifeeless,whilst she dragged
Quarks now stilled and growing colder male aging corpse to the oven,and tossed
the now useless husk inside it,for it to be cremated.
Then the somewhat coldblooded Fast Light entity returned to her charge,gently pushed
the Fast Light body to the floor and gave Quark the zap of Fast Light energy she'd need to
become a self directed autonomous entity made entirely of Fast Light.
The red eyed baby girl coughed into life,and as Quark openned her red irissed eyes,the shock was there to see in them.
The baby girl,a copy of Philly when she was a baby,quickly began to mature and expand into a
seven year old girl.
Philly just sat back and watched as Quark slowly got up and straggered over to the oven and looked inside,where the crackling of burning fat,meat and that skeleton in there told Philly Hardbottoms
duplicated that Sir Gregory Quark was dead.
The change in her mind was instantaneous as the entity who had a transformed mind and soul
instantly shed her Quarkian memories.
She was Philly Hardbottom,daughter of Dorothea Hardbottom,her mother.
Her supernatural photographic memory even recalled her day of birth out between her mothers legs.
Philly(2) looked at all the complicated adult stuff that had belonged to the now cremateing
Sir Quark,and wondered how she and Philly(1) were going to rescue their dad ,Mr Justin Quark...