And while he was walking, he noticed that he was getting happier the closer he came to Sylvia's room. He had to push himself mentally, to get into his... role of an interrogator again. Something that came natural to him was now getting very hard to do.When he reached the door to Sylvia's room, he took a deep breath and walked in, closing the door behind him. He saw that Sylvia looked at him, and again she surprised him by giving him one of her so beautiful sweet smiles."Crap!" he thought when he. "I turned the steak over and went back into the kitchen to pour myself a glass of lager, then I went and sat outside while my mouth watered as the steak sizzled.I sat and ate the meal and thought about everything that had happened to me, in the space of a few short months, I'd gone from a penniless no-hoper to a multi-millionaire, it was unreal, and I still wasn't seventeen. I wondered how I'd go about introducing myself at the factory, most of the guys I'd worked with were older than me, in. Ahh college, the future leaders of the world sure knew how to get things done.In the morning Stella and I went shopping for food and whatnot, we also went to the toy shop for our little universe. Our last stop, was to the clothes store, since she had decided it was probably time to take over what little room I had in our wardrobe with more clothes that too me, looked pretty much the same.The upshot of the very unmanly duty of going shopping with my girlfriend, was what happened in the change. Suddenly, I found religion, in the form of naming every deity which came to mind, and asking each for a swift and painless end. Then I heard the universe-side door unbolt, and my heart nearly leapt through my throat. After a long pause in which the sound of the unbolting echoed in my mind with the finality of a descending guillotine blade, the universe-side airlock door slid open. Jinarta awaited me, standing in a small starcraft with two subordinate crew members standing behind her at.