.. glasses... I." Contacts." She smiled."I see but... wow. Hi, hello." I felt exponentially more stupid by the second. The warm but fabulously opulent...surroundings blurred and the other guests in the room slipped away from my mind as I looked at her. She didn't look like she had dressed up for the occasion. She looked like she belonged here. Looked like she was some kind of unimaginably rich, indescribably beautiful heiress. I was paying so little attention to anything else that I had to. There is no public terminal anywhere near.”“I wonder how you managed to get these PhDs or ever hoped to become a member of the Hive of Minds. There is GalNet access right here, but you went to Union school, and they did tell you about the rights but also the duties of a Union citizen, did they not?”Martha swallowed hard. “Yes, and I know I disregarded a Union Court Clerk summons. I could not betray Sister, no matter what she might have done. It was not her choice.”“But it was yours to abandon. After a few bites, inspecting his platter, he called to the waiter and said, 'These are delicious, but they are much, much smaller than the ones I saw you serve yesterday.'The waiter shrugged his shoulders and replied, 'Si, Senor.Sometimes the bull wins.A Jewish bookie was at the races playing the ponies and losing his shirt.He noticed a Priest step out onto the track and blessed the forehead of one of the horses lining up for the 4th race. Lo and behold, that horse - a long shot - won the. My waitress was very young, obviously the daughter of the owners, and extremely good at her job. I tipped her twenty bucks for the good job, and headed to my home sated and relaxed. It was my hope that my sleep wouldn’t be hijacked by the death demon, but that was not to be.I hadn’t been asleep very long when death came to steal my dreams. My body was jerked from the bed and catapulted through space and time, to the dark, frightening, hateful place of the dead. It was brutally cold instead of.