Khristan’s World brings Davie back to Mizzone, where, of course, he gave birth to a baby boy after a traumatic five month Mizzonian pregnancy. I didn’t exactly plan this from the start. The original idea was for him to forget completely, with only Spenser keeping the secret.

Having decided I would bring him back to Mizzone, though, I mulled over a couple of ways of doing it. Originally, Davie wasn’t going to know about his son. I had an elaborate idea about Spenser being set up in Northumbria with some sort of listening post for finding out when the universe was in trouble and sending the bat signal to Davie to sort it out. Spenser would thus hear of trouble on Mizzone and insist on the going to the rescue. They would meet Solon and little Khristan in a cave full of refugees and it would come back to him slowly.

Just a bit to complicated. The simple idea of him regaining his memory after a couple of baby related triggers occurred instead. Two obvious seeds were planted in two recent stories. Body Snatchers has Davie caring for an abandoned child, and surprising everyone with his child-minding skills. In Children of Bliss, again, Davie knows exactly how to take care of a baby. And, of course, it is Brenda’s overriding passion and her whole raison d'être for their wedding. She wants babies right away. So is it any wonder that standing in the future nursery of his children it should all rush back to him?

And of course, the only person he can tell is Spenser. But Spenser has a boyfriend of his own, now, and I had to include the awkward scene over coffee where old boyfriend admits to new boyfriend that he and Spenser once had a baby together. It’s a rather cruel thing to do to Stuart, since Spenser and Davie were at their most intimate during that time together. I really didn’t have time for him to get upset about it, though. They had to go to Mizzone. Stuart asking to come along and see this amazing planet which would be a gay man’s dream come true is a nice way to get him on board and a part of the fight to save Khristan’s world.

Of course, as some readers have guessed, there is a huge difference between Spenser and Davie and Stuart and Spenser. Davie was saving himself for a traditional wedding with Brenda and there was no sex between them. The relationship was deeply loving, but platonic. Whereas, although bedroom scenes are not likely to occur, we can definitely assume that Spenser and Stuart are having sex with each other.

Equally obviously, after the Marriage Portal story, Brenda and Stuart are both of a different species and they won’t live as long as their respective lovers. At some time in the far future Davie and Spenser are going to be an item again, and then sex will be a part of it. Davie didn’t think of himself as gay until he found out that Spenser was in love with him and responded to that love in kind. Now he knows he can love in both ways. And he will.

Meanwhile, back to Mizzone, and it was tricky to decide exactly what doom had come over the planet. I originally thought of some sort of civil war. I also had some idea of a Herod like pogrom against children that Davie would have to defend Khristan from. Then I thought of Sontarans, but I really want to hold off on them for a while. They will be a nuisance for Davie in the coming year, but not yet. And Rutans are limited since they’re just electrical blobs.

So I invented Rutarians, who are evolved from both species. Let’s not ask how. And make them nasty, but actually, also victims, too. That puts Davie in a moral dilemma - Save Khristan’s World, destroy the Rutarian species.

Davie doesn’t actually HAVE a dilemma, of course. He’s ready to wipe them out. And it is up to his brother, the man of peace, to tell him he can’t. He is his moral brake. As he has always been. Not for nothing is their symbol a ying-yang – the perfect whole made up of two parts.

Whether there will be any follow up stories featuring Mizzone and Khristan, is open to debate. The right thing for Davie to do is move on. But will he? I haven’t decided, yet.