Her eyes, artificially blind though they were, focused slightly."S-sir?" she rasped."I just finished speaking with PLN's support." Claude had never li...ed dealing with technicians- no matter what their specialty, they always spoke as if the person that hired them knew what they were saying. The tiny man had talked of damaged artificial synapses, ambient values, intelligent uncertainties in the red- concepts he hadn't had to know since university.The tech had used the terms to belittle him,. "Darryl, what do you think about this case?" I asked him."It's fucking weird," he said. "This guy is pretty fucking sneaky though, I'll give him that. I'm not sure he isn't sneakier than the guy we caught who was fucking his kid's teacher though. But sooner or later they always slip up. Sooner or later we'll nail his ass. I'm sure of it." Darryl, why are you so sure he's cheating?" I asked."Oh my fucking God," said Darryl. "Listen to this." He played me the tape of Chris calling his wife at. .after they meet there will be no returning...She alreadyknew she would only say yes when they are face to face. Shewas startled out of her reverie as the door to the entrancefloats into view; she stops to stare as if it were a livingthing. The tingling is everywhere now and her hands trembleas she reaches for the door. Eleventh floor, she chants,end of the hallway on the right and somehow she is there.She taps gently with her fingernails and slowly the dooropens from within. Immediately she. . until the realization of what she was about to do made her snatch it back. She sat up in bed, clutching her head as if to squash the forbidden thoughts lurking within, her body numb with shock.There was no way to sugarcoat this, Barbara knew ... the truth had to be faced. She was sexually attracted to her own daughter.It was crazy -- didn't make sense. It felt like something lifted from a science fiction story where you step outside the door of your home, only to find yourself in a completely.