<div class="floatright">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/d80f/21h8ybmnz6cjeh34g.jpg) (http://www.mediafire.com/view/21h8ybmnz6cjeh3/Kimmie.png/file)</div><br/>We settle in....slowly....but its all working finally.  She speaks....its good to hear a friendly voice in this new land.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/8d/fa/24/8dfa24d770d9dde0d31a701bf1501b93.jpg)</div>“First, I’m Ulla. I’ll be your guide and secretary and social advisor and translator and whatever else you need me to do for as long as you need me to do it. Sister Carlotta has explained some things behind what I witnessed at Salem. The Sisterhood is deeply in your debt and will do all we can to support you in your several tasks.”<br/><br/>We all nod with this good and helpful news.  Chloe replies in gratitude for us all:<br/><br/>“Thank you, Ulla. This has been rough. I trust Carlotta told you I  am in the very early stages of pregnancy, so I would like to establish a relationship soon with physician who specializes in such things. We would call these an Obstetrician and Gynecologist. And our traveling companion, Dr. Tangie Jensen, will also attend me.”<br/><br/>Ulla fills Chloe in particular, but all of us as a group about what we have at our disposal for services and help:<br/><br/>“You will have your choice of the finest doctors and facilities in Sweden. Me, I’m a failed physician. Too much memorizing and comprehension and I just couldn’t manage. But I work at the clinic and learn more and more each day so all things considered it was a serendipity for us that I was in Salem as one of Sweden’s representatives and that I was with the clinic. The clinic I refer to is the Centre for Gender Medicine and Research, Karolinska Institutet. We performed the first uterine transplant that yielded the first successful pregnancy back in 2014. The Centre looks forward to setting up facilities for your research and to enrolling you in the Doktorand program, equivalent in rigor to your PhD program. When you are rested and settled in, I’ll take you on a tour. I warn you, they’re planning an informal reception., only because a formal reception would reveal too much to our enemies.”<br/><br/>When Ulla mentions the transplants I give Chloe's hand a gentle squeeze.  Perhaps there are service here to which I might avail myself.  I am neither man nor woman right now....but I could easily, and desire to be, female.<br/><br/>“So what can you tell us about our request for asylum and so forth?” asks Chloe.<br/><br/>…Ulla fills us in on the destruction of the Salem house as soon as we departed.  I sense something....a good something....our tracks have momentarily, at least, been covered up and lost by the Shadow.  I feel their confusion....and a resolve that this embarrassment needs to be righted.<br/><br/>I re-focus on Ulla as she completes her report on Salem to us:<br/><br/>"...….. The Sisterhood will rebuild, a facility more suited to today’s needs and certainly better protected for the days to come.”<br/><br/>…  sigh …<br/><br/>“Wow. That is so sad. I remember visiting there for ‘summer camp’ when I was a girl Kimmie. That’s where I learned what being a sister was all about andthe first steps to Insight. A big dormitory with lots of girls sleeping on mats on the floor. Camping i tents and sleeping outside. All those things good little witches do.” #Giggle<br/><br/>I smile along with Chloe....squeeze her hand again....Im also wondering, how I knew the Shadow was embarrassed....how did I know that we are now completely safe.  In this one moment in time.  Nothing is near us of approaching us that is dangerous.....<br/><br/>“Is it too early to eat Ulla? You’re in the same boat as us, so to speak.”<br/><br/>Something has happened to me....I'll discuss it with Chloe at a more appropriate and private time.....I do know we are safe....and I do sense changes for me....physically likely....again though....no danger there either....<br/><br/>"I could eat, I think.....".....I smile at all the Sisters present.....not one of them harbors a single shred of a threat to us.  I can almost see them differently than 24 hours ago.....really odd!