He is obviously at a loose end and bored otherwise he would not have bothered with me.m When I explained what I was doing he invited himself over as w...ll. So the two of us go back to Normans. Luke is invited in by Anastasia. The job only takes a few moments. When I reach the kitchen, Luke is seriously chatting her up and she is lapping up all the flattery. I find myself feeling irritated by it. Anastasia pours me tea and thanks me profusely. I drink my tea and then say that I am meeting friends. She was angry at her defeat, but also worried by what she was experiencing. With her senses heightened, the discomfort of the ropes biting down on her wrists, the strain on her shoulders and the guys' grip on her arms, they all seemed to feel much stronger. Even the sensation of her clothes rubbing against her skin seemed so vivid. "Interesting, huh?" Jake asked teasingly as he eyed the slayer?s young, firm tits, barely contained by her sweater. Annie noticed his stare, but there's. . a ban to stop that sort of thing for a reason. Advanced AIs are dangerous. Their goal is to take over the human race and kill us all.”“That is what they want you to fear,” Ericson countered. “Minerva and the past AIs never committed to acts of rebellion, terrorism, domination, or anything of that magnitude unless we programmed them to. We were the ones that terminated all of that and stopped all progression. This is Minerva. This is her.”Ericson held out his left arm. He tapped his wrist, and. She puts her bowl back on the counter and turns to me as shestarts to leave. "They find human women irresistible."Yeah, lucky me.I don't like this doctor either. He's full blood human, maybe that'swhy. He takes my panels and gives me a physical. Yes, a full physical.I'm told prostate cancer runs in my family, then wish I hadn't been toldthat.Then it's time for a brain scan. This actually takes the better part oftwo days. I'm put, naked, inside several machines. They figure out allmy brain.