"I will check with Ms. Sidemore in case she wanted any special handling for your exam, but as of now I see no problem. Good luck, Martin, and see you ...on Thursday."I thanked Mr. Oceano and left. Inside, I was irritated with my so-called counselor. I wondered if she was going to deny that she had ever agreed to the biology test. Probably not, I decided. Too many people were involved in the discussion, including the AP Chemistry teacher.Air conditioning or not, I had to perform a breathing. "Good morning Clarice! You look very lovely today!" I stood across from her and waited. In a moment she also stood, and looked me over very carefully. "Well, you look a bit like a girl of course, but your posture is terrible, and those nails! You need to have your hair attended to as soon as possible, and when you walked out here it was obvious that you still walk like a boy. We can't do anything today, well, maybe a few small things, so I will lay out some clothes for you to wear today, and. I understand that we split the take fifty-fifty.”I asked, “Where does Sheila come in?”She said, “That’s my advantage. Guys will go nuts over her.”I said, “That’s child porn. That’s dangerous. We could both wind up in jail.”She replied, “Can’t you pretend that she is from some other country where she is legal? Maybe the web site host can be in some other country too. Can’t you just drive down the street, piggyback on someone else’s Internet service and upload the pictures. That way maybe nobody. The Yanme’e and the Lekgolo were so alien as to be unknowable, and while she respected the Sangheili for their principles, they were inflexible. They stuck to their traditions so rigidly, dying avoidable deaths and throwing their lives away for the sake of their honor.This Imp, on the other hand, this Human ... he embodied everything that she sought in a squadmate. He was stoic, adaptable, brave. Not only that, but he didn’t treat her the way that other Covenant did. The Imp didn’t care about.