" Kali?" I heard Yvette ask. She was sitting at a neighboring table trying to get others interested in a bridge match.Tamara shouted from near the dan...e floor. "The fifth planet is Kali. We named the fourth Isis. We decided on goddesses."Yvette sighed. "And yet the two inner planets are named after characters from a movie."I waved for silence. "Hold the chatter. You said calls, Kate?" Yes," she replied. "Commander O'Brien from the Corvette Nassau, and Manuel from the other side of the colony.. We had arrived yesterday late evening by bus. After a long day in the bus, I had felt dizzy in the morning. So I had skipped the group trekking. Even though Renu and some of my friends had volunteered to stay with me, I turned them down. I said that it was a small head ache and would go off pretty soon. So they had carried out without me. After a few extra hours of sleep, I felt much better and decided to take a walk through the forest.I was wearing a tight white sleeveless top. The top was. "Let me help you madam he said as he took the trolley and pushed it out of the carriage and then helped her onto the platform. It wasn't his stop and there was no way he could get back on for by the time the trolley and woman were reunited the doors had closed the train was moving off. "Well they could have waited", he smiling said. In reality it didn't matter that he missed the train, he would just catch the next and because it was near peak hour the trains were running frequently. "This. Friday night after work was always time for a few drinks with the boys, I never missed it. As the night wore on and people went home to their families the last two holdouts were John and me. John, unusual for the time, was an out gay man, he was slender, handsome, and charming. We had a work-friendly relationship that never amounted to more than brief conversations and sharing of jokes. I never had the slightest sexual attraction to him or any other man, that was to change in a big way.After a.