”“Get on with it,” Ria said. Have it wait outside, close to the ship’s docking bay. ”Michael slid to the ground. “The stars were aligned and it all happened exactly as was ordained.
We caught sight of Elsie again, walking up from the docks, a hundred yards away, but her silhouette was unmistakable. “Count the FOR SALE signs,” she said. ”I thought, at first, that this was the moment: that she meant to ask me about membership in the Confederacy. To be with her, and to share his flesh and blood with her, is an experience which pales even the furthest heights of sexual ecstasy.
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