But she decided to betray me. She also betrayed the one she really loves. You were not here that day. She left me the day you returned from your Flori...an adventure."Giselle's eyes lighted up. Some of the words pierced her twilight. A fog seemed to dissolve."Oh? But she... her hair... she..." Yes, darling, I know. Please go get her. I need to talk to her."Giselle fetched the woman. She shook and tried to resist."Make her kneel, then kneel beside her."Mistress stretched her body into an even more. I started to say words, but all the came was like baby talk. Then all stop. The next thing I knew was waking up in my sleeping bag. When I woke, I jumped out of the sleeping bag and I looked outside really quick everything was where it was supposed to be. That’s when I looked down I could see that I was nowhere near 64 years old. My body looked around 25 years of age and it was in great shape. It was no dream. It was real.Still I was not scared, in fact I was happy. I could feel the. ...The colony communed, considered and resolved.Despite the capacity to interact with norms (who constituted about half of the newcomers) the colony decided not to accompany the new crew members. The major reason was numbers — the Sundowners now made up only a third of the ship's compliment and the companions would be severely stretched to cope. The second reason, admittedly minor, was pure snobbery — the Sundowners were the executive of the ship and the newcomers "just crew"....Apart from. They did look very cute together, almost like twin sisters enjoying a lazy day in the house. Both of them had put on some clothes. Karen wearing only a pair of her boyshorts and a sweatshirt that she had stolen from me a few months ago and I knew I wasn’t getting back any time soon. Kassie was wearing a pair of my old sweatpants and an undershirt. She was still here only a few days and we still hadn’t completely gotten her a new wardrobe. I stood back a few steps, my heart nearly bursting at.