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“Concentrate on me, the rest will sort itself out in the morning.”
    She laughed, “If this is part of my instruction, consider me an attentive pupil.”
    As he rocked into her with short shifts of his hips, she shivered. Her first day as a Nameless might have started out rough, but it was ending with a bang.

Chapter Seven
    Learning to move in space was easy at Home. Since it was a fixed point in space and time, removed from both, it did not move while one of the Nameless was stepping from place to place.
    “Come on, Aura. We are not going to have breakfast unless you can walk directly to the refectory.”
    Randr was sexier this morning than he had been last night and that was saying something. Today, he was wearing a dark crimson shirt, black trousers and black boots. For her, he had retrieved the Terran wear from the previous day’s selections.
    “While that clothing is very form fitting, it is not that flattering to you. I much prefer you in the gown of yesterday.” He sighed heavily.
    She laughed and concentrated on calling the Orb power within. “You seemed to prefer me in nothing yesterday.”
    “True.”
    “Then, shush and let me concentrate. These clothes are comfortable and let me move. That gown was a little restrictive.”
    He snorted. “I am sure that Tavik is grateful for it.”
    She gave him a dark look and got back to concentrating. When she managed to create a doorway to the refectory, she stepped through and had to stifle the frantic inner applause that her mind was generating.
    Randr appeared at her side in an instant. “Well done. First lesson learned and passed.”
    “Hardly my first lesson. For example, that thing you did with your little finger last night was completely new to me.” She laughed as he stood there with a shocked expression on his face.
    This morning, she stayed on the safe side of the foodstuffs that had been acquired for the Nameless.
    She sat and ate with her tutor, asking him anything that passed her thoughts. “So, nothing grows here because time is a static state?”
    “Correct.”
    “Then how was I able to heal at all, how are we able to speak and move?” Aura nibbled at her experimental food for the day, substance on a stick.
    “The Orb gives us the ability to live outside of time, as for your wound, I sped up the healing process to allow you to live. It was the same way it was done for me and the same way it was done for everyone here.”
    She chuckled. “So, the Nameless are a bit lemming-like in their habits?”
    “I don’t understand the reference.”
    “We tend to die a lot.”
    “Well, yes. But, if our collectors are paying attention, then we are taken up at the moment that we die.”
    “What if the collectors don’t get there in time?” It was a legitimate question. She wanted to know how many of her new people were missed in the shuffle.
    “They die and are not healed and given the power of the Orb. They live and die a normal life.”
    She shrugged. Billions of people died every day. Some had tremendous potential but died anyway. It was not fair, but life wasn’t fair.
    Aura felt a searing pain and she clutched her head. Images of her beaten sister sobbing against her mother, the police standing in the living room and taking the information of the attack swarmed through her thoughts.
    When she was fourteen, her nineteen-year-old sister had been out with friends and had been abducted from the parking lot of the bar while they were waiting for a cab.
    Beaten and bloody, she had stumbled home, but her mother had refused to let her shower. With no recriminations and no shame, Aura’s mother had taken Carola to the hospital and stayed by her side while she gave the details to the police.
    Aura was reliving every moment, but when the police arrived to notify Carola that her attacker had been killed, everything went bright.
    “What is going on?” Randr’s whisper was concerned. “What do you see?”
    “It isn’t right. I am seeing something that