She was slipping away and there wasn’t anything that he could do but hold her hand and watch. She died peacefully in her sleep but he was devastated... For two years, he mourned her and hardly left his home except to go to the grocery store and run errands. One night, as he had finally dosed off to sleep, a vision of his lovely wife came to him and told him that it was time to move on and that he had been in mourning for long enough. She had been married for too many years to a man who. .. after the accident, she sort of lost interest in me. Especially after she graduated and went off to school out of state. And no ... it wasn't her I was imagining," I left off saying without offering any additional information. Julie made no indication she was curious about who it was I'd been thinking about and didn't press it. Her eyes actually held a moment of sympathy towards me and I hated it when I saw that. Turning my own wheelchair myself, I began rolling back towards the house. ” “The worst part of this mess are the rumours Jamie, I’m the Bio-Specialist.” “What rumours specifically? It’s been a conspiracy theorist’s wet dream for four centuries. They are handed down like family heirlooms. It’s a billion dollar industry.” “The rumours that the Thorne was transmitting a plant genome sequence before the data-stream was corrupted and then lost?” “Huh, fuck, yeah that one. I heard that one at Academy training too, that’s an A-grade one. Has some rep.” “We have a green. "Nearlydone my pets." She screwed the dial to its maximum, and the peach colourslowly changed again to Barbie pink. The floating feeling abated andJenny began to slowly cool. Paul felt as though he was being stroked byhundreds of feathers and he felt a difference to his body. Jenny wasstaring at him with a shocked expression. His blonde hair seemed to begrowing as she watched, and his face was the face of a girl, a verypretty girl. She'd seen the face many times before in mirrors. It was.