"This home is right in your price range, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. It has a finished basement, and two large bedrooms."The woman in the back glanced at he... husband and said "Looks okay from the outside. What do you think, honey?"The man said to his wife, "I guess," then looked at Gail and said, "How many bathrooms?"Gail looked at her clipboard and said, "Two and two halves?" Uhm," said the man, "It's been a while since elementary school but doesn't two and two halves equal three?"Gail laughed. "Not. They also ate, but I knew it was just a hologram. Another large screen showed me some of my family that had come to chat while I worked or relaxed. None of them would stay long for they knew it would distract me. I kept reminding myself that having one of my wives here would distract me even more.After the meal we stopped at a system with a still functional transponder. It turned out to be a Tandra base but it was empty. It looked like the defence system was still functioning. One of the. That part wasn’t clear.What the girl knew for sure was that her Mother had been kicked out of a car, stranded, perhaps running from away from an unspecified danger. Her Mother kept that part secret when she confessed the rest and the girl wondered if her Mom had committed a crime or had a fight with her boyfriend. All she said was she had gotten to a phone booth in front of a closed store on a road in the middle of no-where. When a car pulled up and a man had gotten out going to the. .. that way it would seem like she got home drunk, stripped and got into bed naked ... ok, that means I gotta get the covers back and get her at least partly under them ... boy, that took a lot of work ... trying to do it WITH her naked and not waking her up to catch me halfway done ... whew, finally, she is lying on her back fully in bed, the covers close by so that I could easily and quickly pull them over her ... I can sit on the side of the bed now and look and touch and everything ....