"For real?" Almost for real. This is not an artificial being though," She cautioned, suddenly. "The programming is very advanced, and the computing po...er is so great that human responses and even emotions can be simulated. Ava's actually limited in those areas by design. She can be pleasant and cheerful or concerned and insistent, even alarmed if there is immediate danger, but she won't laugh at your jokes, won't cry or laugh at all. Ava is many things, but she is not a person."I asked where. "The doctor nodded in agreement and lit his cigarette. He took a few puffs, drew the smoke in deep. He seemed to relax a bit, the care lines on his face evening out."What ... What about you?" Ludwig asked with just a hint of hesitation, as if the answer might not be forthcoming, as it was dangerous to know."What do you want to know?" replied Ethan while tapping a cigarette out of his pack."I just think it might be safer if you came along. That's all I need to know." I'm going in as far deep as. Stephanie broke the news why Trevor was there over dessert. She was dumping Jay. Trevor had been her steady boyfriend for the past month."Stephanie and Trevor?" Kelly asked, incredulous."Shit! You've got to be kidding!" I exclaimed. "How could she break up with her boyfriend of two months that way? I thought Jay and Steph made a great couple." Jay and Stephanie were great together," Shawn replied. " ... but they never were a couple, officially. They just dated a lot." This doesn't sound like. E. bending it vertically and placing the foot on the chair (while the other leg remains normal :-P) and me, instantly and instinctively :-P, I cast my eye towards her naked knee that came out above the level of the table with a bit of the leg and a bit of the calf (always naked :-P), then, immediately after :-P, she takes the bottom of the skirt of her tunic and wraps it, quite tightly :-P, around the knee of the leg raised and bent vertically above the chair, in this way an uncovered part.