Inside was a line of students all waiting to be checked in. I joined the line and looked at some of the people I was going to be living with and smile.... No really young kids horsing around, thank god. Robinson Hall was a co-ed dorm for people 24 years or older, mostly graduate students. Some, like me, were ANTS - Adult Non-Traditional Students; students that for various reasons were starting or finishing undergraduate degrees well past the age of most college students.Me? I'm probably one of. She was able to tell from the teasing conversation that the twins were naked – the usual state of Phoenix girls and goddesses in their hedonistic little world.Goddesses and Phoenix girls – perfect specimens of female ... everything! The guys always lust after the physically perfect goddesses and even frequent their temples to satisfy that lust. In that manner, sexual tension is bled off from the society in general – except where it affects the occasional female, neglected because 'her' guy has. A lot of the Mexicans had the last name of Pena. She'd never seen them talking at school; they didn't arrive together or leave together. They didn't look any more like the other than all the people with darker skin looked like each other.Chuck was a dumbass. Everyone knew that. But he was the star of the basketball team and people were saying he might be the first male athlete from Eisenhower in a dozen years to earn a Division I athletic scholarship. She made her move right then, pulling him. He educated me, my sisters, and the children of like minded friends to survive in such a radically changed land fraught with hostile marauders."We were trained even as babies to be soldiers. With our numbers so small, we could only hope to survive as irregular troops against potentially more numerous bands. My father foresaw that we would hide most of the time and fight at night, or in inclement conditions. There was no way we could survive a pitched battle against probable larger forces."I was.