Seeing the look on Alice's face, Tammi quickly reassured her. "Not like a harlot! Just adding color to your clothing, hair and lips. It will be very t...steful, I assure you." Alice still looked hesitant, but she nodded her head in agreement.While Margaret showed the harbor master around the ship, the rest of the ladies gathered around Tamarilla to find out what was going on. "Girls, we will be meeting the King soon. Let's all get prettied-up so we can be the best ambassadors possible for the. ......."But Turi knew the exact reason why Aspanu was like a 'male slut' sleeping with anything that moved around in a skirt & it saddened him even more. For Aspanu had weak lungs. So Turi never argued much with him to change his unreligious life disobeying the morals of the society."Turi, what are you thinking? Did you here all that I said just now?" Aspanu questioned.Turi nodded 'yes' & they talked for hours in the cool breeze over the mountains until dusk. A cluster of stars had begun to. If it does happen it will be suitably steamy however...)It is the Year 2532. In the wake of the 'Miranda Wave' public outcry on the core worlds has completely revised the government of the Alliance and ousted its former leadership. Gone are the days of secret eugenics projects on backwater worlds and training facilities where those with psychic gifts have their brains cut up to make them perfect spies. Accountability is the new regime's watchword and this is for the best. They have stepped up. We make the choices we do because of the way our brains respond to stimuli.’ ‘I’d say it’s a mix of both. I mean, I chose to approach you at the mixer because I find you very attractive, because my brain reacted in a positive way to the way you look, because it’s wired a certain way. Yet I could have chosen not to approach you for fear of rejection, shyness, whatever.’ ‘Yes, but our genetics and environment also play a role in that. If you’d been born with less than stellar looks and were used.