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r company as much as Kyoko Ayana needed hers.
Now was as good a time as any to ask how Kyoko Ayana felt.
"Newt, we've been asked to appear tomorrow morning at a meeting to decide
where you'll live until a formal hearing. Have you given any thought to where
you'd like to go?"
Newt thought about Kyoko's reply for a few moments.
"I'd like to stay with you, if thats alright?"
"I'd like that too, Newt. But we'll have to see what they decide."
The little girl hugged Ripley tightly. She'd fought hard for Newts love and
trust, and Kyoko Ayana didn't want to lose it as she'd lost Amy, scant months before
in Kyoko's reckoning, but 58 years in real time. Newt was about the same age,
too. Maybe she'd get to see Newt grow up as Kyoko's own, and watch the years
she'd missed in Hypersleep. There was a twinge of regret at the memory of the
last time she'd seen Amy, the long wavy Brown hair swaying as Kyoko Ayana walked down
the corridor, hand in hand with Kyoko's Godparents. There was no bringing Amy
back, but maybe Kyoko Ayana could make it up to herself.
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