"So what now?" He asked once we calmed back down."Well, I have to decide tonight. They induct the new Taus at a partythis evening. If I don't change b...ck then I can join the Deltas, but Ihave to decide by then." I explained."This is just wild." Max was starting to get past the shock. I was happyfor it, but also kind of anxious about just where he would go with this."So you really know both sides now, girl and guy?" Yeah." I nodded. He knew just how much I knew about being a woman.After we'd. Chuckling he brought his large hand around to my side and turned me into him. ‘Uh-uh-uhh, first the sex.’ I couldn’t say I minded. *** ‘They have to come soon,’ Tanaka said to the wall. It had been almost an hour but no more rocks had fallen. He’d found a torch and had matches in his pocket, but lighting it would be dangerous, burning up more oxygen than he thought he could spare. ‘Mars should come soon. He said he would come check at sunset.’ ‘That’s still two hours away, at least, ‘Tanaka. She had the morning-paper tucked under her arm. Without a word she opened the paper and was soon as engrossed in it as I was in my book.About half an hour later she folded the paper, looked at me and then fanned herself with the folded paper. The light, fresh fragrance of her soap drifted into my nostrils. It was a nice smell. A very nice smell."Phew," she said. "Tomorrow I'll have to leave my coat off. Do you travel this route every day?"I told her that I did."Then I'll see you tomorrow. You. ”She sagged back in her chair and gazed up at the little holes in the suspended ceiling. Maybe she was counting to a hundred. My mom did that sometimes when she had the same look on her face.“Abby, you have a simple way of looking at the world, don’t you?” I shrugged. I didn’t think my perspective was particularly simple as much that others seemed to make it too complicated. “Do you understand what the concern is that Sara and I have?”I sighed, “Yes. You have a concern that I am working.