The mentorship begun in that moment continued to the present day when Sophie was effectively his private student, in addition to her own studies. He h...d succeeded in persuading two of his colleagues at another college to act informally as her tutors in the years before she was ready for university. Her innate exceptional intelligence was enough to convince his colleagues to assist.When she returned to the bed he felt the mattress dip but only slightly, she was a slender young woman now. Without. . four...”The technician finished the countdown with his fingers and pointed at Contessa Helena de San Finzione. She sat in a Louis XV chair, wearing a black Christian Dior pantsuit with a beige blouse beneath; and turned to face a monitor where she could see two fifty-something women sitting on a couch in a morning television studio in Los Angeles sipping wine and pretending to talk to each other excitedly about something that couldn’t be heard until the show’s “back from commercial” jingle. .." he grimaced, "you wished to be the most beautiful girl in theworld. You're female now. You should be happy." It's blonde," I repeated. "I hate blonde."He sighed, looking at the green bottle in my hand. "What color do youwant?" Reddish. More toward auburn."The lock of hair turned dark red. "Better?" he asked, looking down at me.I frowned. "No. There's still work to do." What!" he screeched. "What else could you possibly not like?" These," I hefted my breast. "These are monstrosities. They're. One has gone missing after both were dispatched and I have no idea why or where." A straw for you..." and TJ recounted the details from encounter to condemnation as a prize."Her mission?"TJ carefully considered this,"At the point we took her, she had the approaches of every sizeable orbital in the southeast and south of the galaxy. She hadn't covered the south west even though she was in Gorgipest space. The crew had been engaged in piracy over the covered area to the extent that the loot was.