Better than I could ever remember feeling in my life. I felt...right.The only comparison I could think of was that I had been wearing a set ofclothes...that were uncomfortable and just didn't fit right. However I'dbeen wearing those same clothes for my entire life, so didn't realizethat this wasn't how clothes were supposed to fit. Now it was like I wassuddenly wearing a set of clothes that were not only a perfect fit, butwere also more comfortable than I'd ever been able to imagine. "Despite my dire straights, this gave me hope. This nightmare could becorrected. I could get back to who I really was.Collecting my thoughts, I continued my questioning. "You still haven'ttold me why? Why have you done this to us?"Smiling, Randal walked around and sat on the desk in front of me beforeproviding answers."For one thing, I wanted to see if I could. For another, I need aperson who is neither a man nor a woman for a job my benefactor hascharged me with." Pausing to look me over a bit. There seemed to be no signs of life from our bed room. Maybe she was still sleeping. I had forgotten to set up the coffee pot, so I grabbed a glass OJ, went back to my quarters for my brief case and headed out for breakfast at a diner about half way between home and the plant.Just after lunch I got a text from Clarissa "home fr dinner???"I sent one back "Y". There was no way I could totally avoid her and maybe it wouldn't be so bad. I had calmed down a lot. Hopefully she would not bring up the. Damn, it must be really hard to be in her classes.’I had already learned that when Linnea asked a question she was really serious about her question. Maybe there was a time for joking, but it wasn’t when she asked direct questions. No, she wasn’t the easiest person to try to be friends with. Luckily I had learned a lot about that during my first months with the Elves.“Trade. I intend to become successful on my own and one possible way of doing that is trade. One way to do successful trade is to.