" Was all she said.I went to the bedroom door, and tried the knob. The door was locked and I could hear Isidora sobbing."Isidora let me in." I begged....Go away. You lied to me." Isidora, come on. I never lied to you. You know I love you. I had to work with Nika so you and I could be together, and that's all." Why didn't you tell me about her?" It never came up, and besides, I didn't want you to have to worry any more than you already were." You should have told me." She sobbed."Let me in, and. ”“Why aren’t you two having sex? I’d be fine with it if you were.” I told the man in front of me.Clarity hit his face, “That’s what you meant by sharing with Alice. Isn’t it?”“Yes,” was all I said.“It could happen one day. But the only girl I really ... Let me rephrase that. I told myself that the next woman I would have sex with was you,” he told me.“But Jim, we have sex all the time,” I said as if it should be obvious.“True. But I mean true sex.” He got even closer and whispered even softer,. He walked over with her to the couch sat her down across his lap and held her gently stroking her hair and whispering softly to her that it was ‘ok’ he was here now. They stayed that way for maybe fifteen minutes as he slowly calmed her down. Finally her sobs quieted and she was resting peacefully on him, her body now completely relaxed. He could tell by her breathing she was asleep. He picked her up gently and took her into another room, and then another until he found her bedroom. He laid her. I had considered some simple changes to my face in the medtube, but the Naval Intelligence team that I worked with thought that it would be counterproductive. The team’s leader told me, “When Richard Stewart left Earth two years ago, he was a late-fifties theologian.” (I didn’t correct her about my field, which had been Divinity. I know, who cared?) “Now you appear to be early-twenties. You had a severe limp for a decade, now you don’t. Even people that knew you when you were young will think,.