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Carl nodded in Joshua's direction. "The Yherajk are worried that their physi
cal appearance will present problems."
After a few minutes of walking around, I had Gwedif make the cube totally tr
ansparent. For the briefest of seconds, I felt a surge of panic again, but i
t was immediately replaced by the most astounding sense of exhilaration -- a
 God's eye view of the planet, unencumbered by spacesuit or visor. I asked G
wedif if there was artificial gravity in the cube and he said that there was
; I asked him if we could cut it off so I could float, but he demurred. He s
aid he'd prefer not to have the pickup floating around aimlessly. They did d
ecrease the gravity to match the spaceship that we were going to; suddenly I
 was 40 pounds lighter. After a few more minutes I asked them to retint the 
cube -- my forebrain had accepted I was safe, but the reptile regions were h
aving trouble with it.
"Well, eventually my cells will take the place of all his cells," Joshua sai
d. "It's more efficient, especially since I won't have all these damned spec
ialized organs to deal with. The only thing I'll need to be concerned with i
s maintaining my shape and appearance, which won't be that difficult. It'll 
take about a week."