"That one would be a good choice, we don't want to chance visiting the last one we were on." She pointed to a sun off to the right of the screen. Arro... zoomed in and found the habitable planet. He set the coordinates in the computer as Mark obtained clearance to take off.As he piloted the ship to the designated jump point, Mark glanced over at Minara. "This journey is going to take a while, so I think it would be useful if you filled us in on the Grojan government system and the significance of. “And you don’t mind Jason having my body pierced?”“Baby, I love that!”She kissed me and told me that Jason had asked her if she liked her new body art, and she told him that she loved it.She went on to tell me that, he told her that, he may not be finished with the body art yet.“What did he mean baby?” I asked.“I asked him what he meant as well babe,” Christy replied, “He said that there may be more piercing’s in the, not too distant future.”“More piercing, where baby?”“He didn’t say.”“Oh, I. As I opened my eyes and sat up, I saw that it was dark out and that Iwas still in the empty lot where I'd died. A horrible stench filledthe air, and I recognized it as the same smell from when I'd beenburning. There were a few small fires where the dark smoke and foulsmell were coming from, and my stomach churned and threatened to turninside out as I realized that they were human bodies."No freaking way," I blurted out, staring at one charred body inhorror. "That's me..."My own body was. I'll seeya Monday!" No!!" he shouted, but too late for her to hear; she was away on herbike by then, leaving John behind both outraged and puzzled. Joyce wasa nice girl, even though she was a girl. She never teased him orpicked on him. Sometimes they played at each other's house. What wasgoing on here? Even she was calling him Alice now!He walked on home, mumbling furiously to himself, occasionally yellingout at nobody in particular.The next morning, John got up early to watch the Saturday.