"Oh, you're going to play dumb with me?" Maria asked, stopping in between the two portables near the phys ed building.Ingrid stopped, turned and looke... at her. The blonde hair was in a ponytail, and sweat darkened her midriff cut gym shirt, and the waist of her tiny running shorts, which were cut so tight they looked more like large panties. Her blue eyes bore into Maria's without a word."I know about you and my husband, so let's just cut all the play-acting," Maria said, folding her. She's in your class." Correct. Anna shows great promise. She could move on to bigger things." She smoothed a strand of hair back over one ear. It waited until her hand returned to her lap, then fell forward to its original position. "Depending on how she does here, with me, there could be a scholarship for art school, no?" Yes. My wife told me about that."She leaned forward. "Anna is one of two candidates for the scholarship. It has been difficult to decide. However, Anna's last project put her. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at what is available. The Confederacy is carrying some extremely well-connected people to Escardis, so the Arab League has supplied us with a wide range of good quality food for them on their journey. We have copied those replicator templates, and they will travel out with you to your new homes as well." That explained the excellent soup at lunch, Zeinab realised. Yesterday's evening meal had also been nice. It seemed that the good food would. I finished up by quarter to three in the morning, and we climbed into my car and I followed his directions to his house. He said he and a room mate were the only ones living there, and his roomy might not be coming back tonight after all. I'd never met his roomy, but if he was anything like D---, he had to be hot! I parked on the curb in the cul de sac, he stepped out saying, "Come on in, dude." I followed his lead. He opened the door without a key and I followed him in to a dark house. In the.