Und nicht zum ersten Mal blieb er an einem jungen Mann hängen, der etwa in meinem Alter sein musste. Er trug einen Anzug und schien ebenfalls auf ein...en After-Work-Drink hier zu sein. Sein Blick war schon mehrmals zu mir herüber gewandert, und nun wagte ich es und lächelte ihn an, um dann verlegen wieder auf meine Unterlagen zu schauen, auf denen ich mir einige Notizen gemacht hatte. Als ich den Blick wieder hob, sah ich, wie er auf mich zu kam. Er stellte sich als Henrik vor und fragte mich, ob. Until we started singing and I looked across the arc at Meredith, who was standing right at the edge of the risers, deep in soprano country. At which point I started having problems looking anywhere else. But eventually the orchestra wandered across my field of vision, filing onstage for their turn behind the baton, and Arie waved at me, trying to get my attention."That's Trina," she said to me, leaning over as she passed."Huh?" I said."That's Trina," Arie said, pointing again. "My sister." The. "What the fuck are you doing, Sergeant?" Miller screeched.The interruption came at an unfortunate time, just as Zo and Wildebeest were attempting to persuade a somewhat unhappy and restive hexapod to accept its first bit. The human was unpersuaded that a bit would be the best means of establishing control over the Eden creatures—the fact that the mouths of Earth's work animals were their most sensitive points might not translate well to another planet—but, as he told Wildebeest, "we have to. Cathy and I had grown closer during the last year and I wondered if it was leading to something more than just fuck buddies. I didn’t see myself as a lesbian and neither did Cathy; it was just the circumstances we lived under that made us do it. I liked her, a lot in fact, but I knew that when the day came for me to leave I would find a man to start a family with. I wanted children and I would be damned if I would let them grow up like I had.There was a noise outside the window and I got out of.