“I heard you, I… I don’t know, I guess I was just concerned.” He turned back to the grave and I crept up behind him to look at it. Marie Louis... Emmett, dead just two weeks, lay beneath the soil by his knees. “You wife?” I asked crouching beside him. “My sister,” he said. “My little sister.” I looked at the dates again and realised the girl had only been fifteen when she died. “What happened?” “I killed her.” I lost my balance and staggered back. “I’m sorry, what?” He turned to face me and. He had left his advanced weapons, explosives and uniform under a low-level force field in the back of the cave, close to where he had been dropped. He wore the clothes of a Halcyon, a citizen of the country he had been assigned to. His identity was that of a junior army captain in the Eastern Division of the Halcyon Army. His papers showed that he originated in the north of the country and had joined the Army and purchased his commission as a member of the Mine Protection Corps in the northern. We pulled up into a space near the entrance to the mall. Fiona grabbed her sunglasses and bag and was about to exit the vehicle when I reached over and grabbed her arm."I can't do this!" I screamed, not able to think of a feasible excuse. "Please! I beg you. What if someone notices that I'm not a real girl?"She calmly leaned over, brushing the hair out of my face, and began to speak slow and softly. "Brianna, baby. No one is going to give a fuck either way. It doesn't matter if they believe. She gasped hardly recognising herself.Before she came to this world she had lots of muscles and her hair wasstyled into a buzz cut. Now, looking at herself she saw an image ofbeauty. She shuddered. She didn't feel very feminine at all."I'm ready!" Jessica called down to Brian. Brian walked into the hallwayand waited at the bottom of the stairs. His jaw dropped when he saw her.This wasn't his fianc?e surely? Where was the woman who had big musclesand liked nothing better to do than drink beer.