"Well we have given it a great deal of thought I can assure you. We'veeven included the ladies of the outer community in our deliberations."Another pa...se for us to take in the incomprehensible."This girl, the creation of such a man, would most certainly be a slaveto every aspect of subservient and debilitating femininity. She'd wearmake up at all times don't you think? She'd always wear heels that madewalking preposterously difficult sometimes. She'd never wear trousers orjeans, always skirts. ‘Look, Maria, I’ve no axe to grind. Anything you say will be safe with me, and I sense you want to talk.’ Thankfully, this seemed to make up her mind and she nodded, ‘yes’. ‘Come on,’ she said, ‘let’s go and get my car.’ And, doing so, we drove home. I showed her into the lounge and went to make coffee (perc’ed actually) and brought it into the room. ‘What’s this all about, Caroline,’ she said, more openly hostile now she had regained her poise, ‘what’s going on here?’ Time to come clean, I. Claire said things like, “Oh yeah, I get it. What answer did you get again? That’s what I got too.” She was copying my work, that was obvious, but I didn’t mind.There was no question that it was her looks that first drew me to her. Her hair was forever changing style but she never changed its colour—night sky black. She had dark blue eyes that she tried to hide with makeup and she always avoided looking directly at people.She wasn’t tall, not that that mattered to me, nor did she have the huge. Let's see if it will carry us for a few more hours. If it does, we'll never have to rely on hope again." Amen," Laura said. "A-fucking-men."Callahan was looking out through the main camera installed in his APC, staring east, towards the high-rises of Eden, which could now be seen poking upward into the sky. They were ten kilometers west of the Martian main line of defense, preparing to assault it. It was the second time Callahan had been in this particular position. The first time he'd risked a.