Frankie moved languidly stretching against her contentment, and she spoke in a soft whisper."Are you yourself now?" More than I can remember recently"...Gina replied, wondering at the words she spoke."Good, so how do we get out of this serious shit Gina?" a steady voice enquired."We can't, we are bound to Joyce, and bound to the night - this is our future - our home now" Gina's eyes brimmed with certainty.Frankie said nothing, but her mind was racing; She could feel Joyce's influence inside her,. " He grinned for a second, which was the first sign of a positive emotion he had shown. "After all, breaking a few thousand years of cultural tradition isn't going to be easy." Take the time you need, but there is one thing you need to do first." What's that?" You need to relax. Learn to take things in stride. The main reason I'm here talking to you is that one of the teachers broke an ethics rule and told me that you were heading for a burnout. She was also afraid that when you missed out on. “Yes, the King shook your hand,” he added when I looked back down at my hand and then back up at Father.“Wow,” I finally managed to say causing everyone around us to burst out laughing.We went back inside and finished our interrupted lunch. Everyone wanted to know what Father talked to King Kugiar about. “For now, it’s best if it remains a secret,” he replied. “In four weeks at most, everyone will know because we will need several people to harvest the first part of the crop,” he explained.. I hurt all over but slowly reached up to pull the pads off me. The Kaire girl was suddenly there and caught my hand, “no.”I stilled and tried not to breath and she searched my face. She let me go, “you were in very bad shape. They put you in a stasis bag and had to operate with you in stasis.”I turned my head to breath and she chuckled, “I am wearing a scent pad tom.”I took a breath and looked at her, “I can still smell you.”She shifted and then sat in the chair beside the bed, “they said on.