It was unoccupied this summer, so Keisi strode in boldly, confident that she would find no surprises within. A few minutes later she joined the other ...wo girls at the car. Maria was still sound asleep.“Ok, what are we going to do with her?” asked Natalia.The girls all looked at each other in silence until Keisi climbed into the car and gently started pulling Maria out. There were moans from Maria and a few broken words but she stayed asleep. Her three friends now began to extract her from the. Something had changed in the 25 new clones they had made of me. Oh yes, they were me, looked exactly like me, had all my knowledge, even acted like me, but they were different. They were like the Hive. They were one, an entity. Each one knew what the other one was doing, thinking, even feeling. They really were ONE ... born and bred that way. Ann and the other Girls should have known it from the three Miss Kelly’s. I guess they would have known it if there had been an original Miss Kelly alive. The final match for the schools championship had come down to one matchBasically who ever won would take the cup for that year. And the Maths teacher expected my friend and I to play. We managed to evade him all day.And when it came to the match after school. We decided to not bother going to where the match was to be played. So we both knew it would cost the school the championship for that year.The next day we were summoned to the Head Mistresses office. And Mr Mardy was there red faced and. "I'm told you had questions of procurement. Khan has the contract for procurement. What are your concerns? Surely you know the superior reputation of my Family."This woman had a rod of pure brass up her spine and he had no intention of being anything but deferential to her. He was about to give her some measly excuse when the thought struck him that she wasn't Volentin and he didn't have to bow and scrape before her. That, he realized, was what he had been doing for the last six months. Hell,.