He was now both embarrassed and flustered, and finally said, ‘I am sorry, Annie! I… I didn’t intend to upset you.’ He suddenly realized that ...he was wearing her winter jacket and boots, and quickly added, ‘Please, let me take your jacket. You can put your boots over here, and we can sit and talk when you’re comfortable.’ He escorted her to the closet where he hung up her jacket, and she placed her snowy boots on a plastic tray where they could dry. Annie hadn’t said anything more beyond a. Just fucking talk to her, then if you need me to, I’ll put in an opinion.” That pretty much ended the conversation.“You know I’m a cop. I can put an end to this, but I don’t really want her known as the town slut,” Mica said.“Mica, just talk to Thia and calm down. If you two decide you need me to mediate, I will get involved. But try to keep it out of court, and off the gossip hot line please,” I said.We stayed busy all day with the teenage drama straight off the TV shows. I had one of the. ..." I understand, I totally do," he said. "People are really curiousabout it and how we're all coping with the change. If it hadhappened to someone else I'd be just as curious. I mean the membersof an all-male band swapping bodies with world-famous femalesupermodels was always going to be a big deal."Yasmin studied his face intently, that face that had graced thecovers of hundreds of fashion magazines, Naomi's face, and sighed.Had it really been only a year since the incident? It seemed. Are you,” he asked in a dry, cracked voice.Iliyana spoke slowly, hesitating slightly. “Ili ... Iliyana Partan.”Tremar’s eyes moved along her body, noting her stiff nipples poking against her tunic. “And you are a Jedi? Has my sentence been rescinded?”“No, it hasn’t. I ... freed you, in hopes of being taken away from Coruscant and the Jedi My Lord,” she blurted. It was a truth she had barely considered herself.Tremar smiled faintly. “I will not be able to take either of us from here without both.