Liz arrived at the door and let us in. Looking critically at Jane she said, "Well I can certainly see why Andrea was prepared to change her gender for...you, you are one beautiful girl and like Andrea you ooze sexuality."Jane looked straight into Liz's eyes appraising her and said, "Liz you are also one very beautiful woman, Andrea was certainly not wrong about you." Why thank you," replied Liz, "by the way the dinner is almost ready, do you want something to drink in the meantime." Jane opted. A feeling I think you will appreciate, now that you have one of your own.”Unsurprisingly, I found myself agreeing with her. I was vaguely aware of the presence of a second core at all times within myself. Even in the short time we had been bonded together, my familiar had helped me in more ways than one. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I was alive today only because of my familiar and its parent.Since she was the one who had introduced me to familiars, I asked her about something. She showed me the world in a new way every day, through her eyes. As she grew, I began to speak to her about the Mysteries. I began to instruct her about Love. I was able to help her along in ways I had not been helped. I understood this world we were in much better than I had when I first arrived. I now knew that in this place, a goddess was a rarity, and had to be discreet. Angela would not celebrate the Ceremony of Blossoming with a public feast, as I had done in so many other lifetimes. The. No matter what they don't entirely screen out matter. That is one of the reasons that the Confederacy either stopped using them or never used them extensively. That is that once you open one it is hard to keep your neighbors, who may be far more aggressive than you from being able to use them. They can be 'tuned' to certain ship operating 'frequencies' but that only goes so far.One thing that Lily says, in her new capacity as my research assistant, is that she doesn't think that what they want.