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relinquishing power, not changing that
forceful stance. "Why do you want me?" she
asked. "You donТt even know me."

"But we will," my husband said.

"And then youТll send me back," she said,
her tone bitter. I heard the fear in it.

"You wonТt go back," I said. "I promise
you that."

It was an easy promise to make. None of
the children, even if their adoptions did
not work, returned to the Moon.

A bell sounded overhead. They had warned
us about this, warned us that we would
have to move when we heard it.

"ItТs time to leave," my husband said.
"Get your things."

Her first look was shock and betrayal,
quickly masked. I wasnТt even sure I had
seen it. And then she narrowed those
lovely chocolate eyes. "IТm from the
Moon," she said with a sarcasm that was
foreign to our natural daughters. "We have
no things."

What we knew of the Moon Wars on Earth was
fairly slim. The news vids were
necessarily vague, and I had never had the
patience for a long lesson in Moon
history.

The shorthand for the Moon situation was
this: the MoonТs economic resources were
scarce. Some colonies, after several years
of existence, were self-sufficient. Others
were not. The shipments from Earth, highly
valuable, were designated to specific
places and often did not get there.
Piracy, theft, and murder occurred to gain
the scarce resources. Sometimes skirmishes
broke out. A few times, the fighting
escalated. Domes were damaged, and in the
worst of the fighting, two colonies were
destroyed.