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"Well yes but who's to say those sayings are true? I mean, it's a psychological thing anyway. And if you love someone else maybe it makes it easier to love yourself, I'm not really sure." She contemplated the bottom of her glass for a moment then glanced back at him.

"I'm not trying to pry and you dont' have to answer if you don't want to but...why did you get overhauled? Was it a personal choice or medical reason?"

Hemophiliac? She hadn't known that and never would have guessed it. But she simply nodded and took the last sip of her drink crunching on a piece of ice that had slipped into her mouth. "Well this is good then. You're reinforced so you dont' have to worry about it and you found a neat place to live. It all works out for the best, right?"

Her and her happy endings. Just about every story eventually had one, she ewasn't one to be melancholy about something. Miss Sunshine indeed.

She smiled at him adn ruffled his hair. "WEll I'm glad it all works out for you. Must have been hell living down on earth."

She glanced off for a moment as she thought of something but looked back at him and tilted her head her fingers running through blonde hair. "I love it up here. It's like everything I've ever wanted come true." And she did, that dreamy smile on her face. "Between the echoes and Jelly and you as well as the others it is a dream come true."

"And you can't even begin to get how liberating that is. I remember forgetting to pay once or twice on Earth and when I tried to expliain taht I really wasn't trying to steal I just didn't use money in space they all looked at me like I was insane." She shook her head for a moment in memory.

'I remember the first time I saw something from Jelly. She sent out this package to all the students who looked promising. A lot of my peers got them, at least the ones who were like me and most of them scoffed and threw the pamphlets away. I kept mine...read it so many times and waited for teh day when I could apply. I used to.." sh eblushed and looked over at the Meta guys then turned back to Rennell adn whispered, "I used to sleep with it under my pillow. That' show badly I wanted to be up here, working with Jelly."

She was suddenly struck by the image of herself holding a bill and sneezing into it then while the horrified crowd looked on glacning up and going, 'what?' It was funny but seh did abstain from bursting into laughter. Instead she choked on the ice she'd just eaten. Coughing for a moment the ice went down leaving her with a vicious pain in her throat but she massaged lightly and it became bearable.

"No...I was raised to hate you. Believe me my mother would be in seventh heaven if I quit today and returned to Earth. I'm disgracing the family name she tells me all the time. But how could doing what I love be disgraceful?"

She laughed, and laughed, and laughed. She just kept laughing and laughing and laughing so that anyone who saw her cracking up the way she was would assume she was either so inebriated she dind't know her own name or insane because no joke could be that funny. But it was.

She finally got herself under control and shook her head, "I'm sorry Rennell but you don't know how many times I"ve wanted to say that to her. She does have a stick that needs to be yanked. She's far too serious for her own good. I say let live, after all we're not hurting aything up here, right? why make such a big deal abou tit?"

She could see her mother's face if she had said something like that to her, lord she'd never hear the end of it. Her mother would have a heart attack, her father would go nuts, it would just be a bad scene all around. But seh wasn't going to tell Rennell that. "Maybe one day I will..."

Then she chuckled and crunched another piece of ice, using a napkin to wipe up the condensation from the table. "No because then they would have nothing to complain about. We're easy scapegoats and we keep their lives interesting. Like it or not, they do need us, even if it's just to beat us down."