Tennyce still remained in love with Kayte, who’d kept her deep and lasting pact,
That she’d never more consider eating Tennyce, who could so attract
Such a giant girl to love him. Now the girl was struggling. There were tensions,
As her mother faced advances from the beings born of both dimensions.

Stawmi worried all the time that she could leave him for a giant man,
Or a settler in the colonies, as each was Alicindra’s fan.
She’d initiated LATERALDATE, and strived to keep the project going
In the colonies; and elegant at fifty, she was always glowing.

Deeply nervous, only twenty, still quite shy, the Viking lad proposed.
She accepted. Stawmi married her, and thought that all the doors were closed
To the other men who’d wanted Alicindra, but without successes.
He had never known for sure if she’d commit to him, and lived for guesses.

Then she told him she was going on sabbatical, but all alone,
Leaving Kayte in charge of LATERALDATE, whose membership had really grown.
She’d be gone for several weeks. Then to his heartbreak, he, while undetected,
Overheard her tell an earth man her own age that he would be collected.

So he spied on her some more, and saw her hide the man amongst her gear.
Then she sought him out and said goodbye; and Stawmi held back every tear.
Once she’d gone, he cried and then told Tennyce he would now be redirecting
His attention to a life on earth in Norway. Kayte was unsuspecting.

Tennyce kept this to himself for days, but Kayte was very keen to probe
For the reasons Stawmi left the giant world, returning to his globe,
In abandonment of her nice mother. Tennyce told what was confided.
“Are you saying Mom would cheat on Stawmi? Don’t you think that’s just one-sided?”

Kayte was hurt, but they resolved their heated words and said they’d have to see
What would happen when her Mom returned. In Norway Stawmi, devotee
Of a love (he felt he’d lost) shut down and found his nightly sleeps extended,
Since he dreaded getting up, convinced his broken heart could not be mended.

Then one day some other Vikings told him he was needed on the shore,
Since a giant woman in her twenties sent for him, with nothing more
Than a promise that he’d find contentment if he just communicated
With the giantess. He forced himself to go to where the woman waited.

She was beautiful and said, “I’m Alicindra. When I went away,
I went calling on an old school friend, a scientist, who wrote to say
She’d heard rumours that I ran a dating service, which was specializing
In relationships with earth men, using functions I was organizing…

… She was busy with experiments, a scientist who seldom came
To the populated areas of my world. So the dating game
Was by correspondence. I would write for earth men in a tiny city,
Sending photographs, enlarged for her, and processed by my group’s committee…”