Faces floated through my mind: Renée, Erin, Nadia, Sally and my other women. The contentedness I had found with them helped me stay grounded and not ...ive in to the wrong choices I might make while with Fiona.Fiona still wore the same red dress she had donned when we got ready to leave her place that morning. Yes, that morning. It felt like it had been years ago.Fiona pulled back enough to see my face. "I've wondered where you've been all day." She shimmied against me in a very agreeable way. "I. It is like trying to tear skin off, completely with the pain and blood. “What the fuck is this?” he asks in a panic.‘Think of this as me being a genie and you Aladdin,’ she answers, smiling wickedly. ‘I’ve granted you your three wishes and now I get to be free.’Trent narrows his eyes at her. ‘You must have watched he kiddie version. The genie isn’t freed at the end.”‘You get the gist of it,’ she snaps back. ‘You and your sister are what we have waited all this time for.’“What about my sister?”. So the chance of both of us experiencing it at the same time was 1-in-3 million times 1-in-3 million, or about 1-in-1E13 ("1E13" means a one followed by thirteen zeroes).Figure in the odds of us both dying at almost the same time - call it the 0.1% we'd already guess at - then we had a chance of a merge as 1-in-1E16. Wow. No wonder we hadn't heard of it happening before! I knew the population of Earth was about 6 billion (6E9). Not only was my experience likely unique on Earth, but it'd take. .. Emperor on my Earth who said, ‘he who defends everything, defends nothing.’ You can’t defend everything, Manny. You need to decide what’s really critical and then you need to do something to place Cillort on the defensive.”“After Coriola, I’ve got panicking bureaucrats coming out of the woodwork,” she sighed.“So give them a victory, not a defence. Take a couple of risks. Even with the Gershon reinforcements he’s got, you can still give him a hell of a black eye with a single fleet.”“True...”.