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on Marjorie.
    Marjorie smiled at them kindly. “That’s why John and I have eight children, of course.”
    More giggles, and now Kayla’s two fellow Jupiter colonists joined in the mirth. Kayla tried to smile, but she couldn’t do better than not scowling. “I think you’ll be surprised how much I can teach you, and how valuable what we do here today will prove to your future happiness. As you Jupiter girls know, the way we live now, here on Draco, is very different, where sex is concerned, from the way they live on Earth. But I promise you that if you work to accept your role, your erotic needs are going to be fulfilled much more thoroughly here than they would probably have been on Earth.”
    Marjorie looked around at her students, meeting each of their eyes for a moment. She came to Kayla last, and Kayla found that this woman who had paddled her so severely aboard the Jupiter was, under the tough-as-nails exterior, clearly well-intentioned. That didn’t mean Kayla sympathized with those intentions, of course. She would find a way out of this, but for now she would play along.
    “Alright,” Marjorie said, “there’s someone else here who you probably all know—even you seconds. Kayla, why don’t you go ahead and introduce yourself? Please also say something about how you’re feeling about the Basic Law. I want this to be a safe space, so feel free to express your real opinion.”
    She couldn’t mean that, could she?
    Kayla looked at the faces around the little circle sitting on the gym mat. “I’m Kayla Lourcy. My dad was responsible for Draco getting colonized. As you may have heard, I didn’t really want to be on the Jupiter, but the Earth government was going to throw me into jail unjustly. They wanted a scapegoat.” Kayla realized then that Marjorie’s talk of a ‘safe space’ was making her let go of her emotions in a way she didn’t like. She blinked back the tears and gritted her teeth. “Anyway. I’m here. And the Basic Law. Well, I’m pretty sure the whole planet knows about what happened on the Jupiter. I didn’t take the news well. But… that’s the way it’s going to be, I guess, and here I am, to learn how to have sex with the man the administration chooses for me.”
    She spoke the last words intending them to be a joke, but they came out as bitter as Kayla felt them.
    Marjorie gave her a sad smile. “As I’ve said, Kayla, I know how hard this is for you. I’m glad you’re here. I think as a 1A you’re going to have a life with your husband that you’ll really, truly thank the Basic Law for someday, but I also know that you can’t see that right now.”
    Kayla looked at her, feeling her brow crease in puzzlement.
    “Also,” Marjorie continued, her tone softening even more, as if to take the sting from the words she spoke, “although I’ve said that this room is a safe space, I must warn you, as a friend—if you’ll let me call myself that—that if you express the kind of sentiment you just did, outside this room in public, you won’t like the results.”
    Kayla felt anger well up in her, and knew that the scowl she had been trying to keep off her face had forced its way on. She said nothing, letting her narrow eyes respond. She expected Marjorie to adopt a stern face in response, or even to threaten her with a paddling, but instead the senior matron just sighed.
    “Kayla,” she said. “I wish you’d let me help you. Maybe you will, someday. But I know that’s not going to be today.” She looked into Kayla’s eyes for another long moment, then turned to the Jupiter girl who sat to Kayla’s left. “Your turn, Joanne,” she said.
    Kayla had to admit that she found the three second-gens absolutely fascinating. They seemed like regular girls, girls Kayla might have known at home, but what came out of their mouths astounded her. For one thing, all three of them, Mary, Margaret, and Susan (old-fashioned names seemed very much a thing here on Draco) all gushed