This old deck may have splinters," saidRex, carrying him off like he was King Kong.He was helpless being carried down the stairs and then placed down ...enyards from the house on the beach. As his bare feet touched the ground,Rex's fingers on his right hand slid between Bob's on his left and likeit or not he found himself holding hands with his unexpected boyfriend.It all happened so fast as he looked down, seeing the sand squishbetween his toes and the feel of the windblown hair on his face.. And a larger part of him thought that there needed to be a way for humans to explore the dark things within them: to let them out, to understand them, not to hide in shame.When David got home, there were a couple of messages from someone at the Phoenix Rising marketing department. He wondered if he were talking to an AI or a human. What would it be like to work for an AI, especially one of the Phoenix AIs. He wondered if AIs that created and destroyed thousands of NPCs on a regular basis would. "They finally decided they understood what I was talking about, but Nanita asked how we'd get the horses to come with us."We will have to catch them ourselves, but they will be building the pen and preparing the snubbing trees. We are going to stay long enough to teach them to train a few anyway, so we can just train some for ourselves while we are at it. With the big cats dead they will have a perfect place to keep their horses."Cartallow must have come up to talk because he called me from. Sierra’s only adverse reaction was publication of her mother’s disclosure that her daughter had received ‘only a lousy $2 million in divorce settlement from that hard-hearted bum of a husband’. Sierra was appalled that her mother should reveal such confidential information. To her amazement Sierra found one of her bitchiest competitors in international dancing claiming that Sierra was ‘in her day the greatest dancer of the Cha Cha the world has ever seen!’ Macie’s photos were great but when.