I’m not some muddy recruit sharing a dorm with a Borealan.” Her face grew redder and she looked out across the lake, watching her alien companion ...s he drifted slowly through the water, matching pace with the slower humans like some kind of green submarine. “It’s not like I went looking or anything, I was doing what you had told me to do, and they just started ... going at it. It was so fast, so exciting, and then Sleethe just ... sort of...” She bit her lip as she reminisced, and Reid felt a. We went from three or four times a week to six and seven times a week and the farther along she got the more insatiable she became. There were mornings when I couldn't wait to get out of the house and get to work just so I could get some rest. I couldn't get away from her at the house. Taking a shower the curtain would be suddenly pulled aside and there would be Catherine smiling at me. She would get in the shower with me and I would end up taking her from behind while she leaned against the. Notfor life. This couldn't be everything. The stores, the cafes, walking inthe park listening to her? Then, kids on top of that? No fucking way.I need more than that." All that from bad coffee?" She was going to mention Proust but figuredhe wouldn't get it.He didn't laugh. "No. It was more than that. It was the way I wasn'teven sure she wanted me there. She wants someone, but not necessarilyme, you know? I need to be with someone who wants me to be there. Atleast."He seemed to be. Now it was Joe's turn. It pointed first to the native who had accompanied it back from the group on the fringes: "Akakha," it said. Then, eyes still on its comrade, it pointed to Igwanda. "Eeghanka." The two repeated each other's names and touched hands as before, but this time there were no proclamations of peace; instead the native's eyes seemed to focus—pointedly, the colonel thought—on first his helmet, then the holster encasing his sidearm, and finally the shouldered blaster. You don't.