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"Hey, sorry, I just wanted to know what it was like to have your ship self."<br />
Taking a deep breath, the small red head smiled apologetically to her friend.<br />
"Sorry, it's just that people keep asking me that. It's getting on my nerves. I can't explain what it<br />
feels like Mary. It's sort of like finding out that a part of you was missing. It's as much your body<br />
as this one is."<br />
Shrugging as she knew she wasn't doing that great a job explaining it to Mary. She really didn't<br />
know how to explain it better than that though.<br />
"You two ready?"<br />
Marcus Felps and Harry Cranston had joined them, as the Marine honor guards started to sort out<br />
the trainee's into alphabetical order.<br />
"Hey Julie, been a while, how you doin'?"<br />
With a wink towards Mary to show her that she wasn't upset, Julie turned towards the two men<br />
and startled both of them <strong>by</strong> hugging them one after the other.<br />
"Missed you two freaks! It's been interesting, but you'll find that out when you bond also. Did I<br />
miss a lot at training?"<br />
"Don't you worry Julie, we'll fill ya in good and proper on all the gossip after we get this here<br />
ceremony out of the way. That right Harry?"<br />
The bald headed black ex racecar driver nodded with, what on anyone else would have been a<br />
bemused grin, but was a large smile on his face.<br />
"Oops, that's me, gotta go. See ya."<br />
Harry winked and moved off. Marcus Felps, one of the oldest trainees, at fifty-five, shook his<br />
head and moved off towards his own spot in the line that was forming up. Marry leaned over and<br />
whispered just before she headed off towards her own place in line as well.<br />
"Remember, no itching in public."<br />
Leaving Julie to shake her own head and smile. It was good to see her three friends again. She'd<br />
missed them when she had been going through her Ship Builders Trials, even if they could be a<br />
bit annoying at times. It would be nice to have dinner with them and catch up on everything that<br />
had been going on at the training center in Plattsburgh NY.<br />
Allen, a trainee from New Zealand who, at six and a half feet tall, reminded her of nothing so<br />
much as a crane, peered down the hallway.
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