" There always is, when it seems too simple," Martin said."They maybe smart enough to wiggle out of it. We have a lab near their house, but it might n...t be their property. We are gonna need to catch them cooking, since no one around here will testify." With those dogs, it is going to be difficult to watch the cooking shack," Martin said."Yes it is," I agreed.'Oak Hill Tavern', was located inside what had once been a downtown drugstore. The owner of the tavern hadn't even bothered to change the. Jason also sent an automated exploration pod on an initial trip and he examined the recorded video very carefully. Since he would be traveling so far Jason needed to get some idea of what the nodes he would be traversing would be like as well as the destination node. There was the distinct possibility that some nodes were divergent enough from his home node to be dangerous and that was a possibility Jason needed to guard against. For example it was possible he could encounter a node where a. Since I was in front of you, had I been watching, I might have seen him in time.”“Oh, nonsense,” Jasmine ground out. “He wasn’t supposed to be there. He should have been a long way from here. The General said that the AI that was watching over the locators, somehow didn’t advise anyone that one of the locators wasn’t working. As cold as it was, most all of the locators/prisoners were stationary because the prisoners stayed inside, particularly at that time of the morning. All four of us were. "A woman's work is never done, I know.Perhaps I should do a bit more of the housework." You?" asked Elaine. "Or do you mean Carolyn?"I felt a pang of confusion, and covered it by laughing again. Elainewandered back into the living room again. What had I meant? Was Ibeginning to derive pleasure from being Carolyn? Was I finding some sortof inner satisfaction in being able to take on her persona?I shook my head. Carolyn was temporary. She was an invention, created tobridge a psychological chasm.