Wails."We must lift your Mum on to this mattress and tie her or strap her on to the mattress with anything we have and let it go down the stairs like ... sled while between us we must take the weight to stop it going too fast."Fortunately the old lady was quite frail and quite light and between them they easily lifted her on to the mattress. Dragging it along the landing to the top of the stairs Tony went first, and sitting on the stairs he took the weight of the mattress on his back and. I heard Sierra and Jamie call her name."Hey," they said.Allison turned around."Yeah. I know. Kinda dirty and twisted. But he lost a bet. So he had to go naked swimming. It's all good now. I'm gonna go to bed." and she walked off the dock and back into the other room.The girls disappeared without another word. Without a comment. And I'll be damned if it never came up again until a couple of days later.Sierra cornered me one evening after her mom went to work."Do you wanna tell me what happened. I would sense anyone coming with my marvelously extended proximity range (twenty four feet now), but it'd taken less than second to put him down, so I'd done that in preference to having an armed man on the loose.I resumed destroying fuse boxes the rest of the way up to level 5. I had previously thought that to be the limit of my range, but I reconsidered that now because I could see the level 5 fusebox better than I used to be able to. The fuse boxes are all in the same places on every level,. “I’m not a ma’am, I’m a cadet,” she told him. “If one of my Marines saw that, your balls would be mush.” She turned, hugged the tween, and told her. “My name is Vivie. If you get hit again, have the AI call me. It’s gonna be alright.” came the peevish voice in her head. she sub-vocalized, catching on at last. The AI was silent. This wasn’t working out like it had projected.Naturally, there were consequences.The first came at the evening meal. Melody preceded Gunny, sat with her, and said,.