"He just nodded. We all knew he was a slut. "The second reason is over the summer Uncle John introduced me to meditation to help center myself. I'm fi...ding with all the noise in the house that I can't concentrate. The third reason I know money is tight. Greg got a car for his sixteenth birthday. Mine is coming up in July. I will take the apartment instead of a car." I saw my Mom flinch at that one. "The final bonus reason is that if Uncle Jim has to move into my old room and share a bathroom. Silently, tears in her eyes, Vanessa handed me her iPad. Breaking news. The body of a young woman had been found in the doorway of the Commerce Bank headquarters. She was blonde, looked a little like me. Similar age, similar slender build.Both of her hands had been crushed to mush. We would learn later that morning that striated marks from an industrial vice were so deeply imbedded that they looked like part of her bone structure.Tears were running down my cheeks. “I have to tell Daddy.”What I. He back-pedalled as fast as he could until he felt himself falling with the mountain lion just beginning its leap for his throat. That had been the point at which he had ripped the head-set off in panic. The relaxed and joking Woden officer who had entered the room only minutes before was now a gibbering wreck!Sarah was watching the scenarios in the VR control centre and was disappointed at how poorly the first officer had done. This was about further testing of the system and Hansa had barely. ...I offered my services and after a while of arguing whether she would come to my room, which continued on my phone as I ate breakfast, I agreed to come to her and worked out roughly where she was and that a taxi wouldn't be too expensive.The taxi driver was very chatty and I had to be careful not to give away that I was off for a naughty meeting. he dropped me close to where I had reckoned the bottom of her street was and I wandered up it looking for her house number. In the end, she didn't.