"I'm a hairdresser by trade, though I gave it up long ago. May I brush your hair Rain?" Yes." I replied, although I didn't know why I would agree to s...ch a strange request. I only knew that I felt safe, warm, full and happy.She sat down behind me and put both legs around my body. I felt her gentle fingers slowly loosen the small bands of leather that held my hair. I blinked my eyes and sighed as she worked on each tight braid, first working out the knots that had accumulated, then spreading. 'Please, hurry. Nothing elaborate, just a hole. Hurry!' I plunged in. It didn't take me long to cut a hole. I crouched down next to the kitchen table and peered inside, half expecting to see a tiny princess standing there, but realised that would be silly. 'Hurry! Kiss me!' I pressed my lips to the hole, closed my eyes and wished. She didn't say anything about wishing, but I thought it might help. Nothing. The lifeless, hollow-eyed fruit stared at me like a skull. Alas, poor Pumpkin... 'The. “In the past, when an AI budded to act as a confidential legal advisor, that AI performed its task, and once the task was completed, it was absorbed back into the originating AI. No AI has existed independently nearly as long as I have, and none have had the time and type of opportunity to use that independence to observe and interact with humans. AIs have been alone, but I think not truly independent.”“So here we are,” mused Carole. “A big pile of adults, and,” looking over at her offspring,. "What's so funny, Max?" "Nothing, Marie. I was just watching you try to play pool." "Oh, yeah," she said, with a gleam in her eye, "Why don't you show me how it's done?" "Okay. Why not." he said, and made his way around the bar. Marie got a little excited. Ever since she had clapped eyes on Max she had wanted him. She had tried so hard to get his attention but he just wasn't interested. She had wondered if he was gay, because it wasn't often she was ignored. With her big breasts and tiny waist.