"If you really want to," she said in a girlish voice.

"Thank you," she told him in her happy girlish voice.

And then a girlish voice came over the comm system.

"You did well today, Sister," said a harsh but still girlish voice.

"It had better be the same girlish voice as before, don't you think?"

A moment later, a girlish voice issued from under the bed.

Her girlish voice now showing the terror that she felt.

"You startled me," the girl said in her small, girlish voice.

"That is right," said a girlish voice a little way behind me and at one side.

She was singing to herself, and maybe to me, in a small, surprisingly girlish voice.