She whispered "Trudy said you were like this, nice, thoughtful, not like all the other jocks, or most of the men. You don't come on like some macho st...d. Except after a shower, I guess." Her smile got brighter, and I pecked her on the cheek. Then she said "There's a bottle of white wine in the pocket of my coat, Andy. Do you have some glasses?"I puttered around with the wine, two glasses, and as I looked at her from across the room, realized she couldn't see me even ten feet away, and there was. And mammoths, dodos, passenger pigeons and elasmosaurs. Every once extinct animal you can think of that left a bit of DNA behind has been resurrected somewhere or other." The Byzantine Empire," said Beatrice. "The Eastern Roman Empire. The Greek Orthodox Church." Sounds like bollocks to me," said the man dismissively. "I was born here on the Moon. I've lived and worked here all my life. The only times I've been extralunar were holidays in Earth's orbit and once to Venus. And that was fucking. I didn't think if thevisitors that seen me thought I was a sissy or not. But I knew that if Iwere with my family or friends, I would never have tried to put any girlclothes on, and that I would never have experienced a side of me that Idid here.Now I knew that I was either a sissy or a girl trapped in a boy's body.Being locked in a cage was secure. I was secure from people teasing meand people saying what I was doing is wrong.So here I was after a few months. I got used to my glass cage. I. .bears are scary. You look around at your car-mates.In the driver’s seat in front of you is your best friend, Amanda. She's pretty tall; tall enough that it's one of the defining characteristics about her, but that certainly hasn't done anything to eliminate her curves, which are very accentuated. The two of you have had a very odd relationship since you were in elementary school, but you've never actually hooked up yet. She's a little into the darker side of life, and expresses it by wearing.