I was sitting upright and sideways with my arms out-stretched and my feet dangling. I watched Jennifer and our evening's guest as they approached on t...e twilit beach. Kimberly looked gorgeously civilized next to the accompanying dark and savagely naked teenager. Kimberly had somehow reclaimed an outfit from the plane's salvage. The designer safari clothes were clean and tailored even if slightly wrinkled. Her hair was brushed out, shiny and full of body. She was dark from the sun. She swung a. " So do the horses," Mary commented."I trust you, Tom," Tess said, "but I don't trust either the girl or her jaguar." Dawn insists that she is the jaguar's girl," I quipped. "So, what am I supposed to investigate and where is it?"Ninety-something hours later I was closing in on a large asteroid. The rock was almost a perfect pyramid. Five flat surfaces--a square base and three triangular sides--were unnatural. Found by a detailed scan of objects orbiting the sun, a scan looking for signs of the. Ava ignored them and focused on herself, with nobody in herclass interacting with her until lunch. When she went with Jeff and Milashe finally got notice.As she ate questions were raised about her. Rumors circulated about herbeing transgender were added to rumors that she was really Jeff's sisterand Steve was really his dad. Neither paid them any attention, but Miladid tell her friends that only the one about Ava being transgender wastrue.Ava ate with an outcast from her class named Mandy Pyle,. Many of her friends were going home to the Chicago area. Others were going to visit friends who lived in the metro. And, of course there were a few getting off at some intermediate stops or going on from Chicago. There were nearly a dozen people she knew in the station waiting for the train. Andy had met her sorority sisters, but she introduced him to them as well as to her classmates. He introduced her to three classmates. She didn’t know how to describe him besides his name. He called her “a.