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"Yes, well, that's certainly an unusual dream," said Ann, secretly thinking, "It's more unusual than you could possibly imagine, Arella Kayne!"
"Still, I guess that's ridiculous," said Arella, "I have lots of wild dreams about things that I could never have known about or expected to happen, and some time in the future, they often do. Still I guess there's no chance of you turning into the Galactic Gadget Girl, so it must have been one of the weirdies that just don't come true or even mean anything."

Ann remembered her night with Butler One on the tops of the buildings at North Sydney. She had wanted to share that moment with somebody; to share it with a regular sized human girl who was capable of thinking and feeling the same thrills and excitement that come to any young girl who suddenly has the technical means to create artificial super powers for herself.  As special as her friendship with Wendell was, it would be nice to have another girl roughly her own age in on their little secret. It would be particularly nice to have a friend among the orphan girls at Freedom Fields who shared her secret; and Arella Kayne had just demonstrated the likely existence of a certain real super power of her own. Ann decided to take a risk.

"Arella, what if I told you that your dream about me was absolutely true?"

"You're kidding. That sounds wild."

"No. Come back to my room. I can show you."

Ann took Arella back to Freedom Fields and locked the two of them safely inside Ann's bedroom. She showed her exolimbs, costume and bracelets to Arella, who marvelled at it all. Ann put the bracelets on over her ordinairy clothes and floated up to the ceiling with the aid of the unfolding triangles.

"This is just too much! Does this mean that we're partners?"

"Keep your voice down," said Ann, "I don't want anyone else to know about this at all, ever."

"I understand," said Arella.

"As for partners, we’d be more of a trio,” said Ann, “Your dream was more accurate than you thought. Meet Wendell.”

She took the tiny boy out and showed him to Arella, who was amazed, even though she had dreamt of his existence herself.

“He’s real!” she whispered.

“I sure am,” said Wendell.

“Well maybe we should look into your powers. You will have to meet Butler One, the robot computer, and Wildstar the spaceship," said Ann.

"Butler One was... is a computer robot made from the spaceship's computer and some of the gadgets in the gadget room, isn't he?"

"Yes, that's amazing," said Ann.

"And Wildstar is the spaceship, but you chose that name, didn't you?"
"I did, but not straight away. Did you dream all of this in one night?"
"Yes, it just went on like a story."
Ann put her special outfit into her backpack, including the exolegs and exogloves. She took off her pullover and put on a shirt, over which she put the exolimb arms, and then the pullover. She also wore the exofeet under her sox.

"Now we walk out into the bushes and summon Butler One."

 

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