Lady Heather is a natural choice, yet ruled out as I've already explained.Lydia Carrie would make a great choice. However, she is as dedicated to runn...ng Lady Heather's now as I once was when I passed up a chance to be owned by Randall. Call that a passion too. One she shares with myself, Anna, and Lady Heather.Other robots and humans also fell short for various reasons.I should be clear that I'm not looking to pick my Successor here, or even a Consort yet. That's a different type of search. I. A lotof people thought that I really was a girl. What they thought, orbelieved doesn't change who I really am. I'm much more concerned aboutdying than anything else. Besides, turning into something like ourfriend would brother me a lot more than just becoming a girl," I said,gesturing politely at our minotaur in distress.After a couple more changelings came on board, we started moving. Wemade some small talk, and I was thankful for the distraction from myproblem. I was guessing that Jil had. .." Stimulating?" Beth chuckled. "So you raced out to have sex with an old fat woman?" I wouldn't call it that," Rick argued. "More like 'most incredible'..." Embarrassed, he shut up.So Beth filled it in for him, "Slut?" I was going to say 'piece of ass'..." Rick hung his head. "I guess that isn't any too polite."Beth smiled crookedly. "Not for most girls, but I'll take it in the spirit in which it was intended. But what about Candace?"Rick grimaced. "Sex aside, Candace is a pain!"Beth. ‘Yes,’ he said, his voice suddenly difficult to summon. ‘One hundred dollars. You have money?’ ‘Yes,’ he said again, this time a little more naturally. The door cracked open to reveal a Japanese woman wearing a silken robe that looked more like lingerie than it did any sort of professional masseur’s outfit. Then again, thought Jack, to be fair, he’d never been to a masseuse before. Perhaps they all wore something like this. She wasn’t particularly attractive–her face was a little too long,.