**huge grin** Well, Aiko was raised by Jian and Wren. She's a bookish girl in lolita digs who's more than capable of putting her foot through a door (genetic manipulation, after all, is something that does carry on to the next generation...and Wren's not psi like Darryl, but she's certainly manipulated to hell and back).

Hiiro is so much fun to write. We had to write a short exercise in class where we took a single 'item' or possession of our main character and did two points of view on it, one where it was appealing to them and one where it was abhorrent. I did Hiiro's Net jack. **grin** The class loved it.