"She's in Japan, teaching at Tokyo University on an exchange program. I lost track of the other one." You ever..." Ed made a rude motion with his fist...Scott shook his head, same old Ed. "I stopped in Chicago for a day the first time I took leave. They liked the idea of a high school kid they could flirt with, but the Marine version scared them." Hell," Ed said. "You did shoot up two inches and gained what, fifty pounds of muscle?" Not hardly. I'm barely thirty pounds over what I weighed in high. I could not help laughing when she reached the point of throwing things, but she never threw the important disc.Susan called the telephone number in Atlanta and reported that the DVD had been picked up. Of course, she never said anything about her efforts to copy it. The man at the other end of the line said that the DVD would be picked up by a messenger in two days, and she should keep it securely locked up until then. Susan had already stashed the DVD in a locked safe in her office, so that. "Jennifer gives me a funny grin and counters, "It sure as hell is your fault. You left a teenage girl alone to run amok in my cabin. We're probably lucky she didn't shoot herself."I try to apologize, "Listen, I'm sorry about the run. I know it was a chicken shit thing to do and I'm ready for whatever punishment you deem necessary."She gives me an evil grin that puts fear into me all the way down into my boots and simply states, "Don't worry Thom, I'm not going to punish you. Now I need to get. .. dwellings."The vehicle slowed and I saw a low, windowless, dome-shaped structure to our right. Artistically sculptured grounds surrounded it. "Is that a house? Could we stop and look?" It is a house. I ... we ... do not have permission to enter it." The car accelerated again and moved away."If all your people are dead, why do you need permission?"There ensued one of those very long (for a computer) pauses."It is the law." But the people who made the laws are all dead."Silence.I looked at.