Originally published in Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning, edited by Sherwood Smith, SFF Net, October 2002.
- Honorable mention, The Year's Best Science Fiction: 21st Annual Collection, edited by Gardner Dozois
Elven, Lynx, and Dido are sisters—of a sort. Highly evolved beings of pure energy, they come together billions of year in the future for a taste of life in the flesh, and perhaps to reconstruct what it once meant to be human.