I think it worked."Your name is Robyn, not Robert."What a silly thing for John to say. Of course my nameis Robyn. That's what it says on my driver's l...cense."We are in love with each other," he said as helooked at me and gave me that loving smile.Of course I love John, my John. And I feel that hegives me so much love back."In fact," John told me. "We are getting married nextweekend."I looked at my engagement ring and thought about whenhe gave it to me. It was such a nice birthday presentlast. She said that she had thought about calling a few times but never got up the nerve. I confided to her that I had did the same thing. Suddenly two people who used to always get along were now struggling to even hold a normal conversation. “Look Sarah”, I told her, “I think we should have a talk when you have time. We can’t leave things like this between us. Can we meet up when you have some time.”“Sure”, she replied, “I am working today. I am at the office alone on Saturdays. This would be a. .. and those bodies are no more than ammunition to the Sa'arm gestalt, their collective "mind".When it came to reproductive potential, especially with multiple concubines expanding the number of wombs allowing extra parallelism, we had as much of an advantage over all of the other races within the Confederacy, but, then, they'd genetically engineered themselves to slow that down.We humans hadn't had to re-engineer ourselves for limited lebensraum and resources as had all of the other members. It feltgood in my hand...like an old friend. There was something about itthat seemed far more real than the summoned impostor I had beenfighting with. Then with a sigh, I silently said farewell to it,knowing that I would never see it again.At that moment, I began to feel dizzy and detached from my senses. Iwas aware of my costume vanishing from my body and transforming intosomething else...into Channel's usual costume. I'd helped stop theBlack Guild and defeated Blood Sword so my business.