At first, she laughed, but after a few more comments, she realized they were serious. They asked her to move into shallower water so they could get a ...etter look at what was hidden from view.Dawn said that at this point, she began to get worried. If something happened, how would this look? She had willingly agreed to travel with these two guys. She was the one who was standing naked in front of them. It would be their word against hers. She was at their mercy. There was no safe place to run to.. Whatever it was that she had in mind it was now coming to a head. And as she slid into the bench seat of the table the only thought that kept coming to mind was this; how could I be so lucky?We sat and chatted for almost an hour, sipping on a pair of drinks. Lissa is the daughter of a co-worker at my father’s place of employment. She had met my dad during a field trip to a science exposé at the civic center two years ago, and it was by his recommendation that she was able to secure early. The more moderately wealthy - but still rich beyond the reach of most of the population - could maybe afford to save up for a designer sleeve, to switch into once their bodies started to fail them. Or they could buy "off-the-rack", living their lives in a succession of "used" sleeves from various sources - people who had elected to move on into VR, convicted criminals, or the desperate, who rented or sold their sleeves to the highest bidder - and once in a while, a designer sleeve that had been. Mike's ex was namedJanet. She was his high school sweetheart and they had married rightafter college and before he became a pro athlete. I had never met her butshe had her own small business, a travel agency if memory served. Ofcourse, that required her to travel a great deal which was how Mike and Ihad some of our early opportunities. Apparently Mike had told her a gooddeal about me.Jamal had been in some trouble from what I remembered. He was raised in ahome with two successful parents but he.