First contact was a big deal at first, but we quickly got used to their
silver eyes and strange thermochromic skin. These days its all trade
agreements and off-world exchange students.

I met Layl in English class, and when we hooked up my handprints on her
skin gave us away in 10 seconds flat.

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Come see the purple beaches they said, and the low gravity hockey and the winged cats - Callista is the only offworld colony with winged cats! I'm lying on lavender sand, watching the sky. Approaching darkness enough to dim three suns, feathers in flight, flocks of siamese turning on a dime.

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Jo, one finger tapping away, the other flicking the food order, eyes widening around the tracker, is incredulous. "Him? Your yoga teacher?"
One job, no tracker, no headset, no gesture interface, he's barely connected.
Sometimes he won't even do more then one thing at a time.
I grin. "Yeah, him."

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