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"A little," Mia laughed, clearly liking how he manhandled her. Even at half his weight, her calm sure
confidence came off like a challenge, begging him to puncture her smug Greenie superiority.

Taking firm hold of her buttock, Derek suggested, "Perhaps you would prefer a SuperCat?"

"Ugh, too hairy," Mia protested, "and those horrid teeth! They are real beasts, who do not know good
from evil. You know good and evil, yet you choose good. That delights me."

Derek too. He kissed her soft acquiescent mouth, at the same time sliding out of his trousers. When he
released her tongue, Mia whispered, "What is her name?"

"Who?" He kicked his pants onto the tatami deck.

Mia wiggled atop him, her groin grinding rhythmically against his. "This Earthwoman, from Portland."

He never knew what Greenies would say next. "Her name is Tammy."

Mia grinned, so excited by his seeing an Earthwoman she had to drag Tammy into bed with them,
metaphorically at least. "Did you make love to Tammy?"

"No time." Derek could barely believe they were discussing this. Tammy had been hard put to even talk
to him; at best, he hoped to hire her to help with his job.

"You will." Mia dismissed his protest; after all, he was only human, and a man at that. Parting her thighs,
she sank down onto him, drawing him deep into her. Maybe Greenies were the same under the skin.
Mia's head might be wired wildly different, and her skin might turn sunlight into blood sugar, but, on the
inside, she felt just like a woman. Or so Derek supposedтАФnever having done this with a human female.

Portland Woman

Greenies needed no death penalty, since they never killed each other, and genocide was such a
preposterous concept they had no laws against it. So the trial took place on the surface, on a lowland
LZ, under military law, with Leo for a judge. The defendants were the last to leave Pender's bunker, the
trio in flight suits and Tammy, who turned out to be on Pender's staff, an operations assistant doubling as
a door-gunner. All were charged with murdering more than ten thousand Gekko civilians in a nuclear
strike near the end of the fighting. The older man had piloted the strike craft, and his two teenage sons
had served as weapons officer and crew chief. Tammy's office had given the order.

Liking to work outdoors, Leo held the trial in a deep green valley floored by stands of elephant grass and
tall tree fernsтАФa hint of what Harmonia would be like when ter-raforming was complete. Brightly
colored birds called from atop the tree ferns. Derek refused to sit on the jury, so it was made up of
SuperChimps, SuperCats, and Greenie malesтАФ since no female could vote for death. Learning that
Derek would not serve on the jury, Leo asked, "Will you be defense attorney then?"

Derek shook his head. "That would be racist." Why have him do it, just because he was human? Derek
had no training as a lawyer, and no particular sympathy for Pender's people. Nor for Gekkos, so far as
that goes. Let some earnest young Greenie try to get them off.

Tammy immediately volunteered, stepping up and saying to the SuperCat, "I will defend myself and the