Elaa...but not the Elaa that I'd changed, though she was Elaa nonetheless, perhaps made a whore on some other world than the one where we'd met--or that very one, who knew here in Limbo?--or maybe she was the energy given to dreams of bright lights by a girl in a convent on Planet X-9 that never came to fruition, and so wound up here. The Elaa I had changed had been 12; this girl was 22 going on…