Isn't that what all this testing is about?" "Guess it is.Isn't that what all this testing is about?" "Guess it is. What do you think you're going to be?" "A Felinzi. Or a tindal. Maybe even a Centaur. If I come out a Centaur, do I get to keep my own face?" "Depends on what the Hall thinks." She pursed her lips at that. "That's what everybody says. But Kathy Moran went through the well and came out looking like herself. So did Kurtis Brewer." "That's only two people, and a hundred people go through the Hall every week." There was a short pause as we forded a stream, and I said, "Greta, what would you do if you came out male?" "I don't know. I though about it, but I assumed I'd come out female. Almost ninety-two percent of well-goers come out the sex they went in." "I see you studied." "Everybody does. I just don't know. Live with it, I guess." Out of the clear blue I said, "You're gay, aren't you?" "Ah, well," she said, "the old lie is just that." "What old lie is that?" I asked. "Gay people have been running around for almost a decade now telling themselves that unless they're obvious, straights can't tell us apart from them. What gave it away?" "Well, for one, that song you've been singing for the past two days." "It's about one woman losing her lover to another woman. There's nothing obvious at all about it." "Except that one line, 'Just forget it, she loves somebody else?' That 'she' does not refer to the other woman, it must refer to your lover. Took me a while to catch on." She smiled and said, "You catch on quick, don't you?" "I try. Are you... ?" "Kinsey six. You, since you're being so bold?" "Kinsey... Well, let's say I've tried both." "And?" "I'm like you. |