Collette absorbed all the information with wide eyes, and a wondering, pleased grin. "I wish I could meet one of those," came her emphatic comment after hearing about the Braneir. "Do you miss all that? It has to feel different here, when most the variety we get is only in people. Not that it's bad! Different, though."

So many things about this place were simply different than anywhere else, or anywhen else, she'd ever been.