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hand to show her support, but it was Stone who said “You
have every right, Brother. You may not be exactly human, but you
live and interact with us completely like any other person I’ve
ever met. Without you we’d be dead and Chandler has the
means and will to
kill hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters. As far as
I’m concerned you are just a really smart person with a gentle
nature.”
    “ Except when that stick up
his ass gets twisted when someone gets near the kid.”
    “ You know I cannot help it,
Steven.”
    “ Just busting your balls,
Brother.”
    “ If anything concerns my
Match’s balls it’ll involve me.” Renee joked and it lightened the
mood considerably as they came up upon the great ice pyramid. “I
love the statues.” She noted as the literal ice sculptures were
dressed in fur coats and varying cuts that promised warmth and
class. “I choose… you.” She pointed and willed her armor to alter
into the cinch waist heavy dress done completely white, her
favorite color. A leather-like belt buckled around her round hips.
Fur lined the bodice, shoulders, cuffs and hem of the dress with
leggings underneath. She looked through Oliver’s chip and said
“Classy, sexy and warm all at the same time. These women of ice
sure knew how to keep warm and show off cleavage… Olly, look like
that man, but no hat.”
    His armor changed to a caped individual made
into a cloak with a thick suit beneath just as they spotted Andrea
bouncing around from place to place taking pictures of the artwork.
Stephanie and Jacob sat over by a bench with all the gear. Andrea
was a bundle of energy when facing something new. Ever since giving
birth to a son, David, her energy returned to normal. She had the
enhancement of ligament and Solarian and couple that with her
Olympian gymnastic background and she near succeeded in being
everywhere at once.
    “ Thank the stars you’re
back!” Jacob said, tired of watching Andrea going crazy around the
city.
    “ Olly, open the place up,
get the next piece and let’s go home to rest before heading back to
the most humid planet I’ve ever been to.”
    “ Hello Quelette.” He greeted
as the blonde interactive illusion appeared about the time when he
and Renee were near the sealed front entrance to the pyramid
castle.
    “ Master Void. Mistress.” She
replied, inclining her head to both. “Thank you for saving my
sister city.”
    “ Not over till we nab
those really responsible.” Renee said as she laid a bare hand down next to
his. The nano-wall rippled and everyone hurried inside to be caught
breathless.
    Unlike the other lost cities, this main hall
wasn’t decorated with statues of individuals or couples locked in
passionate embraces. Not wild looking or in simple gowns. The hall
merely gently snowed. Great trees and painting of landscapes broke
up the emptiness. The pillars still had winding staircases to the
upper levels, but the lifelessness held a harsh beauty.
    “ I got it now.” Stephanie
said quietly, but everyone had pointed ears and acute hearing.
“Sorry.” She said to everyone taking it in. “I just realized what
these people embodied. Wind were explorers. Terra were warrior
caste. Water was life and birth. Fire is primordial change, but
till now I didn’t realize why Ice loyal Solarians
existed.
    “ It’s the emptiness. The
harshest reality we all had to face. Death. The literal cold we feel when thinking
about death. But they made it beautiful.”
    “ I see it too!” Andrea
paused and lowered her crystal recorder. “But they didn’t embody
death as much as accepted the reality. This must be for the really old Solarians.” She
couldn’t help glancing in Oliver’s direction.
    “ Don’t look at me. I don’t
like this place. If anything… I feel more drawn to
Fire.”
    “ Does it have anything to do
with me perhaps?” Renee played with a curly strand of vibrant
crimson hair meaningfully.
    “ Perhaps, but it’s more like
a feeling.