"See, Neblae? We are barefoot alien body swappers!" Toxic's explanation was followed by a big grin. The door whisked shut behind the fidgetting Neblae. her husband Narchi was seated by her blinking incredulously,"Toxic! Be quiet! Good god...your explanations make my brain bleed!" Bluebell threw her hands in the air and growled at Toxic,"What did you do to my little SISTER?" Toxic shrugged and patted Lime on the head. "She looks fine to me!" Bluebell looked stern as she spat out,"Oh, no you DON'T! Violet! You tossed a blanket over her, when she needed a shoulder to cry on and some explanations!" Toxic said reasonably,"Violet didn't want to be looked at, and Rose didn't want to see her like that,so I tossed a fluffy blanket over her. She needed a nap anyway!" Narchi grunted,"Toss one over me! I need to sleep,too! It's THREE A.M.! Dammit!" Neblae said in a groggy voice,"Toxic didn't do anything to Violet. The party responsible is unknown at present." Narchi growled out angrily,"DISAGREED! I can point fingers. Izkabell, that Althan Krommium bitch did it! Somehow...she has motive and opportunity and maybe even means,too." Bluebell looked confused. "How? Mother told me that it was Martya! She has the power, it seems. What happened?" Narchi asked her,"What do you know about Quantum Theosophy?" Bluebell blinked. "Loads. I AM an Anthropologist! Was real big,some 3500 years ago. Ended up on the dust-heap of human cults, like most of them. Why?" Lime asked in a timid voice,"Miss Neblae? Can you help my sister,Violet?" Neblae looked looked blankly at her, and remarked,"Cyclops are having Devi children,now? I'm not used to the idea that a robot adopting..." Bluebell,Lime and Toxic yelled,"SHE'S NOT A ROBOT! SHE'S MACHINE-LIFE!" Neblae blinked in shock. "WOW! Oh-kay! Alright! 'Machine-life' adopting real children!" Lime looked at Neblae. "Well? Can you help?" Neblae went over and dropped to one knee before Lime. "Honey, I don't know how." Toxic said,"I do! You have to be dead!" Bluebell sighed. She looked at Narchi with a smile. "The quick version,please?" "I'll try. It was believed that every time a possibility occurred, ALL probabilities came into being in parallel realities. The expanding universe in multiple dimensions, yatta,yatta,yatta." Narchi shrugged and continued,"APPARENTLY--the Four Sisters have the ability to swap out the physical bodies of some people at the moment of death or rebirth. DON'T GET ME STARTED on THAT! Life, Death and resurrection are WAY to religious to my taste. In any event-- it has been mostly good, Your father Thistledown for instance." Blubell nodded,"Everyone wondered about that. Go on..." Narchi said grimly,"It can used to do otherwise than UPGRADE. THAT is what happened to Violet, but can't be used to kill. Weird." Toxic said in an eerie tone,"So one of us must DIE! OooooEeeeeeeOoooowah!" Everyone stared at her with open mouths. Toxic laughed and asked,"What? WHAT?" Neblae stood up and frowned at her,"Dammit! This is SERIOUS! How can you laugh like that?" Toxic crossed her arms,"Rose gave it to me,I'm wearing a shirt! I can joke about death!" Bluebell laughed,"Oh, yeah...'barfing rainbows'!" Toxic nodded. "Yep, that's it!" The others looked at the two of them. Bluebell explained,"If you've never thrown up before, when you barf, you might barf rainbows. Toxic told me that. Sometimes you just don't know you can do something, until you do it!" Narchi said,"You two died together and spent four virtual months in some kind of eden, kept going by Neblae?" Toxic said,"The afterwards-life!" She continued,"I died, then afterwards we were somewhere else for a while with Kella and Toffet. It was cool. SO?" Narchi said,"My brain is bleeding." Bluebell smiled,"I understand her." Neblae scowled in irritation,"We need the Measure." Narchi said,"We need SOMETHING." --TO BE CONTINUED!--