“AI, can we go outside? Also what time is it, and what would the local equivalent be? With the day being less than twenty-four hours long the clock ...s going to slowly end up off.”“What do we do about that?” Ashley asked.“Nothing,” I said as I looked up at the ceiling.“Current time is twenty one thirty two hours,” the AI responded. “Based on the shorter day on Crucible midnight will likely be in about one hour and dawn would be around oh four hundred hours. It is recommended that no one leave. Eddie would have been described as average: not too pretty, and definitely not ugly either. He wore a metallic colored watch on his left wrist, and a black shirt with blue jeans. Like her, he was also wearing sandals, though his were black flip-flops."He is yours, along with the others. It was his idea to bring you into this lifestyle. He saw potential in you, and wanted to make him yours. The others followed suit, and so they are all here. You can take them with you if you want and have your. ” She kicked the tire in frustration and started to cry, anyway.It was time to intervene.“Hey. It’s going to be alright. I promise. Let me take a look and see if it’s something simple like a loose connection.” I liked looking at this woman. She was in her mid-twenties, and had a fresh look about her that was rather pleasant. Her figure was average for her build, but still she had the right pieces in all the right places. Her warm weather outfit was a bad choice as the evening had turned off. The Sperm Bank was a success. There never was a line of waiting customers, but a steady stream of men visited. The unassigned concubines, including the rejects that Bob had acquired early on, all had their wombs planted. Some of the women could not bring themselves to participate in the glory hole and had to entice a visitor to a bedroom -- if Mona was not around. They quickly learned that Mona would take any man she could lure into her clutches, and keep him going at her until he pleaded for.