.. stern. I like a hard man.” She chuckled some more.“Julias wasn’t a hard man.”“Well, no, but he could be when he wanted to be. Sándor is ...imilar, in that sense. He just always wants to be hard, and stoic, for obvious reasons.”“Eh I dunno. I think the gargoyle dude’s really in tune with his gargoyle Horror. You heard what he said, about guarding a vampire for decades. I can see it now, dude literally perched on a rooftop or stone column or something, squatting for days on end.”“That’s what you. ” She took my hand and placed it over a ball shaped object.”That thing under your right hand is called Master Control. With it you can access all bridge functions. Helm, Navigation, Tactical, Engineering, Security and Ops. If any of these stations fail, or don’t react as you want you can overwrite them from here. It takes only a little to get used to it and then it becomes intuitive. Fleet calls it Intu-control for that reason. The panel now sliding under your left hand is the Master Access. Still, as she thought about what her son was about to do, she was once again overcome with a strong curiosity… and before she even realized it, she was quietly tiptoeing down the hall towards his bedroom.When she arrived at Jamie’s room, she silently took a deep breath, and then pressed her ear to the wooden door. The house was older, and the interior doors were hollow… so the air trapped between the two thin sheets of plywood acted like and amplifier, and she was surprised at how clearly she. Oh, this felt good. That's when I heard the knock. I jumped up and banged my shin off the coffee table. "Fuck." I tried to wipe my hand on the inside of my skirt as I walked to the front door. I grabbed the handle and pulled, and that's when I felt a small trickle of what could only be my juice running down my thigh. I really hope she didn't notice. "Tiffany! Thank you so much for letting me come over, I've had the worst day." "No problem, come on in. I have coffee and cookies, and let’s hear.