Couldn't keep my eyes off it. Damn near licking my lips. I can hear the rain getting heavier outside. It's not making it better cuz we did some great ...hings while it was raining. U leaned back under the shower head to rinse the soap out ur hair and off ur body. Watching the water run down ur body was like a waving a lit crack pipe in front of a crack head asking him not to smoke it. I gotta have it.. While u was still ignoring me and not paying attention I leaned forwarded, sliding my tongue. Billy had a couple of drinks and started to nod off. I remarked "Poor kid, he's had a long day; good thing I keep a couple of down sleeping bags in the trunk. He should be OK in the back seat." Oh no, I can't allow that." Beth replied. "Billy is a very polite young man; he had plenty of opportunity not to be one out on the dance floor. I feel perfectly safe in having him stay on my couch." No, Aunt Beth, I don't want to be no trouble to you." Billy interjected."Nonsense, your uncle George. It would have separated out by now, gone all brittle and lost its aroma." What are you getting at?"She asks me to hand her the notebook. Her eyes narrow as she turns to thepage with the four names and addresses."I've heard of Hexham. It's not that far from here, is it?" Fifty miles, give or take..." Then that's where we're going next. I think Helen was in charge of thosegirls. Something happened out there, and she felt responsible. Thesethings were sent to her, maybe not long before she died,. I was ready for you."He gave me a rueful look. "You were that," he said.Mostly I focused on Spook's initial quest for identity and his search for a "purpose" to his existence. I spent a lot of time going over what I could remember of some of the more important conversations we'd had, trying to give him a flavor of the inquiring, super-intelligent and completely rational mind that had inhabited DEFCONTROL, and now all the other computers around the world as well.And I told him what Spook had.