Brian bit at his thumbnail and nodded. “That would be nice. Sometimes I think girls have forgotten I’m alive. Probably be the same, yacht or no.” He laughed. “You ever … brought a girl onto your ship?” Lorq was silent a moment. Then he said, “I have three children.” Now Brian looked surprised. “A boy and two girls. Their mothers are miners on a little Outer Colony world, New Brazillia.” “Oh, you mean you …” Lorq cupped his left hand on his right shoulder, right hand on his left. “We lead very different sorts of lives, I think,” Brian said slowly, “you and I.” “That’s what I was thinking.” Then
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