Of all the fucking luck.I spent the weekend alternately moping about my room, checking one the fast-dwindling text messages from my phone and unpackin.... Most of my stuff was geared towards homework, sports and books. I spent most of Saturday trying to work out if I could move my bed away from That Wall but there was nowhere else to put it.Sunday there was more snow and Maxie had friends over, three of them mucking about in his garden for well over an hour before they vanished. The snow in our. I moved around the car and to the trunk, which I opened and took out my prize. It was really easy to lift the bag, what I did carefully and placed it on the ground to take some other stuff out of the car. Beast came sniffing, like it had really caught his attention. "Attaboy, that's a good nose you have. She smells interesting, doesn't she?" I said laughing. I took her from the ground and headed home. "If you behave maybe I let you have some fun too," I said to my dog laughing, but I didn't. Not activating the weapons in the first place," he said."I thought so. I am assuming that all their AIs are fully online by now," I said."They are, or will be after you activate them," he said."Can they function well without sentient crew?" I asked."They can function well but not at their optimum. As I said, they can do much better with a biological commander, especially one that is familiar with combat," he said."We'll just have to do the best we can with what we've got," I said, and. I listened to the music and even bought a drink for a pretty creature with sparkling eyes. It looked like a female, acted like a female and talked like a female but my gut told me “beware” because this was only an imitation woman. The truth was in the size of the thick wrist that held the concoction of unknown ingredients. Then, there was the ridiculous price that made me the fool and the creature my accomplice in fostering a lie.I was in an Orwellian world where the Truth was really a Lie and.