“I have some clean clothes in my bag. Would you mind if I took a shower here to save time?” she asked.“No not at all,” I said. “I’ll just ...e in the kitchen making fresh coffee. I know you are like your mom. She couldn’t stand stale coffee. I on the other hand adore it.“Make the fresh coffee,” She agreed. She was also walking through the door to the bedroom, as she pulled the scrub top from her suit bottoms. It left her with a much too fancy bra to wear under scrubs. I noted it, but promised. How about wejust eat dinner like two friends?" Brian piped in as he noticed Samanthahaving issues coming up with a response.Samantha nodded, she could handle that much or at least try. She thoughtof just trying to be herself, her old self.Awkwardness still clung to the two as they walked around the buffet,picking what they wanted, and found an empty table to sit down. Neithersaid a word as they dug into their food. Both wanted to sit and talkwhile they enjoyed their meal, but something was. The two most trending hashtags were #LilithStrain & #TrustNoOne.Feeling curious you tap on #LilithStrain and are greet by an array of random tweets that range from 'OMG so scared, parents have changed and now they're coming for me ' to 'Can't wait to have daddy's schlong deep inside me'. Flipping back you quickly tap on #TrustNoOne there was an array of tweets again but one stood out flicking down you brush your thumb against it and a video clip instantaneously started. A teenage sat nervously. When I stepped out of the room I arrived in, I let The Lokhoni know she needed to call the elders for a conference. Leaving the hut, and it was always a hut, regardless of what was outside, I saw that the damned statue was still there. Oh well. Maybe the Coalition would destroy it.Wandering around I noticed the changes from last time. Esoteric technology was fully integrated into the world and people. A lot were empowered, maybe as many as ten percent. That's a lot of people to be able to make.