"I, for one, have had quitesufficient new experiences for one day!" Duncan laughed and agreed withme. "However" I continued, "I do want to meet Dolly....So next Sunday youcan entertain me to tea and I expect you to be wearing your prettiestparty frock!" Duncan looked at the floor and mumbled that he wasn't surehe could cope with that. But I persisted and, eventually, he agreed to myrequest.I asked Duncan to help me back into my dress and shivered as he gentlykissed the nape of my neck as he did. Then I ordered it toforget we were there and to erase all records of us and our ever beinghere. It will do that right before it docks. We don't want it to forgettoo soon and depressurize with us here. Or we would die."Morgan looked more afraid at that. Jennifer said hotly, "Would you havepreferred we find a imperial battle cruiser to board that's fully crewedwith commanders, officers, enlisted men and women and possibly severalhundred troopers to maintain control."Morgan saw the point and they. Then she cut down the drinking, usually only having a cooler or two on hot days. When she got pregnant she would be on the wagon, and happy for it.Oh, how she wanted to be a mommy.God knows they had tried! It was just casual the last two years. She'd gone off birth control. But it didn't work. Then a couple months ago they agreed they had practiced enough, it was time to get serious.Vickie had been to the "baby-making" doctor who told her everything looked fine. According to Dr. Lois she was a. Me on the other hand… I guess I’ve got something substantial to offer. “You ready?” I ask it with an acerbic preemptive satisfaction.It answers me with grand hostility, the crash of thunder, and an echoing whisper. It’s not a sound that a human throat could make, but that definitely sounded like a word on the wind. This is it, I guess. And… Fight.As a tendril of frigid breath slips through skull and brain to reach straight into my consciousness, I think to the both of us that it might have.