"Esther sighed wearily and with a sense of resignation sank back in her chair. Her eyes misted over and she began, starting with that eventful New Yea...'s Eve Party. Her face was expressionless and her eyes dulled. She went through the significant events in her marriage almost by rote and showed little emotion relating the hotel lounge incident which put an end to her marriage. Esther had kept her composure during the telling of her story, but when she finished describing the final conversation. "Never had we discussed Linda's general lack of visible panty line. The grey sweatpants she'd taken to wearing since her return certainly didn't hint at anything otherwise.Linda was dressed exactly like that as we got ready to go out. She was in a t-shirt and a light pair of grey sweatpants--her standard uniform. She deigned to entertain a windbreaker when we left the house. We were out for a wild evening of hitting the video store, then stashing up on snacks. I'd been a good Dad to agree to go. When he pulled into the parking lot I went over to his van so we could be alone. He told me he had some different stuff planned and we would leave Wednesday night until Sunday and we would be in a cabin up in the Pocono Mountains by a large lake. I loved the idea and told him. Wait, he said there was more. Mike and Linda,(his piece on the side) and Larry and Lisa would also be there and Larry had a friend who owned an RV and we would all travel together. Wow, now I was really excited as Mike. ’ ‘A virtual world? Virtual space? In computers like ours?’ ‘Well, not quite like yours. Your civilisation doesn’t have the processing power or capability that we have. In fact, neither do the civilisations to which Beatrice and Colonel Vashti separately belong. Indeed, it’s likely that the laws of physics that operate in this multiverse don’t permit the level of civilisation that we’ve attained. But, ironically, this doesn’t mean that a civilisation as primitive as yours couldn’t generate.