There was a large hammock on the lanai and I stretched out in it. She nestled in beside me and it was very comfortable. With all the sun, the swimming... the walking and the emotional exhaustion I went to sleep. It was very peaceful.We spent ten days this way. Alone, taking walks, swimming, snorkeling, talking. I soon became very brown while she just added to her tan some. After ten days we went to see what the rest of the place looked like. There was a casino, a fancy restaurant, a clothiers so. A minute later we were on the other side and running once more, listening out all the time for private peeler patrols. I was almost out of breath when she stopped at last by a derelict steamcrate dock. “Under here,” she said, reaching into the control box and pulling a lever. A section of grass slid aside and left a gaping hole in the ground. Anna reached inside and began winding a wheel on the control box as a length of thick fabric began to emerge from the hole. Within minutes a balloon was. "I wish I had some of the monitoringequipment from the lab. This one is closed, too," he added, pressing hishands on one of the door-sized rectangles regularly spaced along the longwhite tunnel.The first one he had touched had vanished as instantly as a soap bubblewhen he had touched it, and beyond it had been an empty room with thesame color scheme as the hallway. It was empty as if newly made. Nofurniture, no decorations, just four white glowing walls, and that same,purplish-pink. The same sofa I'd been sitting on when Bethany had challenged meto an arm wrestle, the arm wrestle that had started this never-endingslide from manhood to girlhood.I even had ID now, as ridiculous as that sounded. I still had no ideawhere Sara had got it from, although I assumed from all the time she'dspent on her laptop that she'd found it on some dark part of theinternet, and still couldn't quite believe it. She'd shown me itexcitedly. The birth certificate, on which I'd traced the word.