Syn Sinclair and about four-thousand-five-hundred other women stood in long line upon disembarking from the Sarran Starship Brightstar. She held Duchess lightly in her arms, the basket at her feet. The women already claimed by their WarriorPairs were hustled through a separate line, presumably on their way to their new homes. Syn and the others snaked through a queue branching off to ten counters where the Sarran WarriorPairs processed paperwork, assigned housing, and checked the cargo bays to make sure each fem was reunited with her household goods. From Anya, Syn learned that Jonal and Tonas, Anya’s BondMates and the Admirals of the Brightstar Fleet, decided that the Earthen fems would be more comfortable with their possessions around them. Surprisingly, two cats made it up to the ship,
