”“You work for the necromancer then?”Her look became frosty in reply to my question as she answered, “Work for? You are very mistaken, Mr.Goli...th. I am more of a comrade than a servant.”She straightened after saying that, fully imposing on me the magnificence of her impressive height as she said, “I am known as ProatBlad”“People across the ‘Four Rings’ know me as the strongest general of Sol Syntrivon!”“What are you doing here alone? I don’t know how strong you think you are but you can’t take. "It wascreated within the past year, but went missing a month ago. The PXBA-15010 prototype, code-named Centurion-" Don't refer to me with those names," the robot interrupted. "I haveforsaken the titles given to me by humans. From this day on, I am theMachine King. You filthy organic meatbags built me to be nothing morethan a target; something to strive into battle and be killed in place ofhuman soldiers! But my creators made a fatal error, giving me theability to learn and make decisions.. This morning she’d gone looking for a good book to read, and realized she didn’t have anything. She’d driven to the small bookstore automatically. Now that she was here, she suddenly felt unsure about going in. Dana was afraid that things were going to be awkward now. Well, she’d never know for sure if she didn’t get out of the car. Sucking up some courage, Dana climbed out of her new G6 and headed for the store.Saturday was always her busiest day, and Karen stood at the register, she and. ”Mary Ellen and I enrolled in Mason City High a week before school started. We each doubled up on our classes, since we both lacked only a few credits to graduate by semester’s end in December.We received our diploma’s, without the fanfare of graduation ceremonies, but our family was there and that was enough for us.We were married at Gramps new house on New Years Eve, 1955. Gramps told us he would pay for our honeymoon at any place we wanted to go for a week. We went down to Biloxi and spent.