"I don't like the drugs and alcohol at your age, but I wasn't much older when I lived just like you did. Being able to control it, and prioritize it, ...ill let you go far, or set you back some, depending on how you do." It's just for fun. But, so far this year, we've had three kids flunk out and all of them were drug users. Adam is a good influence, and makes sure that I'm doing well in school. After that, he's more like a brother, or a friend." I'll have to send him back a nice Christmas. “It changed things. It changed you and her. Everything is better because of it...”She puts a finger to his lips. “It will end in failure,” she whispers. “I would rather it ends her with some semblance of happiness. It will hurt for me just as it will for you, maybe less but it will hurt nonetheless.”Alan nods and he steps back. He understands, but he doesn’t want to accept it. Heartbreak is not something he is used to. It has happened once when his mother died, but he has ran from it and kept. A smallcaretaker crew will be sent up from the planet to look after the shipwhile we're all put through our paces."Discovering Camus II was now a Starfleet training facility had come as abig surprise. The events that had led to my becoming Janice Lester hadbeen officially classified soon after they occurred, and the existenceof the mind-swapping machine was a closely guarded secret. The planethad then come under the control of Starfleet Intelligence, who hadrecently transferred Khan's. ”Avril looked a little ashamed, I leant in “I did tell you they could read minds; hell, even I could read that face. Relax, you are perfect for me.”Uryghjm slipped into the shape of a woollie, changed to an earth sheep and then re-appeared as a less sensuous woman (still a woman, I noted. Could blobs be cross-dressers?).And Avril? A girl whose idea of sophistication had been a bath with warm water until recently? Did she faint? Did she scream and run head first into a tree in panic? Did he.