There. Look on the bench – there’s a phone charger.”“Great that’s a start. Now if we look down from that window we should be able to see int... the lab.“Ah, the phone’s ringing ... Shit, it’s the boss. Hello. Yes ... Well we’re up in one of the electronics labs. Yes I know. Yes, Mike is with them. Oh you’ve seen the video feed. Uh huh. Yes. Well. But ... OK.”“What did he say, Gerry?”“Let’s say he’s not best pleased. I think his actual words were if I didn’t fucking well fix these fucking fembots. All of this is 2nd-year university math. The English teacher is the only one I have lost in the explanation.When I am done, I do one last quick explanation of how extremely thick ice isn’t broken this way because it requires an insanely large ship.“If you want to break thick ice, there are special ships built that drive through it in reverse and use the propellers to chop up the ice, but that is extremely slow ... You can see now why testing for the next grade is a bit useless. I should be. He’s a wolf hybrid and he’s very well trained. I know you’ve been working with dogs at school and I wanted you to maybe have your own K9 master here at home.”“He’s beautiful, Mother!” I had completely overcome my fear of dogs and now, with the help of my conditioning tapes, was very comfortable around them and enjoyed letting them use me. “Thank You!”“So Kyle wanted me to go over being a K9 owner with you so that you understood. He thought I would be more understanding if you have any. It was rather more than a minute before the door opened, although nothing could be seen of the occupant.“What is it? It can’t be lunch time yet,” came a rather soft voice.“You’ve got a visitor Mr George,” the maid told him.“Oh!” said George, “Umm ... better come in.”The maid grinned at Jake and left him to it. He entered the the gloomy shed which smelled of a variety of nameless chemicals.In the gloom Jake could barely see see George, who stood looking at his workbench, but he could discern a.