Then she could just accept it and move on.Which was why she had no problem with accepting Ai.The blue girl thing was sitting on the couch between the ...wo kids, and obviously real. Shirley had said she wasn't evil so that was that. Time to move on."So what ARE we trying to figure out here?" Gretchen took another sip of her coffee, and turned to her best friend sitting next to her. Shirley put her own cup down on the coffee table in front of them, an unusual use for that piece of furniture. “Enlighten me,” I said.“Monogamy. If she can get you there, then she can have you. That’s what she wants.”“She said she needed a devout Hindu husband,” I protested.“Yes, I’ve heard her say that. But I bet if you asked her, she’d say ‘yes’ and consider religion a ‘work in progress’.”I sighed, “She would. She even said that last week. It’s like Tatyana in that way. Stephanie thinks that if I ask her to stay she’ll give up on her career to be with me. I can’t do either of those things.”“No, but if. According to sources, the bomb was a Russian type: 15 kilotons, very dirty. Designed during the disintegration of the Soviet Union, it incorporated various microprocessors and memory chips in its trigger. This was good news. "The more high-tech they make these things, the more low-tech the solution," Tracy noted to herself. A TZ-425, Mark 3 device, she knew that the removal of SIMM 1 from bank 2 on the trigger board would leave the bomb a radioactive nuisance -- useless as a weapon unless Aziz. This is a second guest bedroom, and it is cleaner and tidier than her current one. The mattress in that one is old and badly stained as you might have noticed. As those stains have been left by previous occupants, I see no reason why I should replace it. When you take her into the new bedroom tell her to stand by the bed and assume position one. She should know what this means by now. It was the pose that she took in the cellar. Hands behind her head and feet spread wide, eyes on the floor. I.