"He's hiding the best parts!" laughed Heidi."So, show us the goods!" cried Hattie."All in good time," said a smiling David. "First, tell me what had y...u in stitches?" We were body-sculpting," laughed Rachel. "Something we'd have trouble doing in front of you. When we were finished, we started distorting the holos, like a hall of mirrors." Okay, I want you to show me -- the sculpting, not the freaks. But first, where are Jacob and Zoe?" They are finger-painting in the playroom upstairs,". "Ja, meine Dame. I will be the one usually here, though there will sometimes be replacements." Good. You will be seeing us quite often. I hope you will be particularly careful about strangers in the car park." I have my instructions, Frau Wallace."As they spoke, a small, stocky man in his fifties came out of the office and approached them. "Mme Wallace," he said in French, "I am Villion. It is a pleasure to meet you. M Schellen has briefed me about you and the project." My pleasure, M Villion.. If he didn’t believe that something bad was going to happen, he would have answered this morning.“This whole thing is scaring me more and more all the time.” She stopped, took out a cigarette and lit it. No production, like she usually did, not trying to look sexy, took a pull on it, then almost immediately put it out in the ashtray. They all saw the sparkle of unshed tears in her eyes.Laura, sitting next to her, pulled Diana over to her, hugging her. “We’ll make it, Di. Jeff will take care of. I guess running a business had taught me something useful in that sense, but when they started to discuss dating, I burst out that I had not dated since high school. I guess that they decided that in my case, dating would happen AFTER the 'test rides.' I was told that the voting was unanimous. And, no, I was not allowed to vote. Like that would have mattered?Two weeks later it was time for another sleepover party, and this time Candice was hosting it. When it was time to leave, Kathryn got her.