"There're going to be some more changes. I'm stepping down as Regimental Commander so that I will have more time free to take over some of the operati...ns here. I want to slowly ease myself out of Shadow and into here. That doesn't mean that I'm going to quit Shadow but that I want to spend more time here and free you up more. I need to learn what you've been doing and how you've been doing it while you're still around to teach me." I'm going to put a letter in the pouch going back to the. " His thumb hooked toward Witherod who had beaten thewater in the soap dish into a froth, and was lounging like an actress inher bubble bath sending him smoky looks as she bathed."Here or down stairs?" Here is fine. I think we need to plan a way to get Monica away from herhell hounds for a few hours...*****Monica had experience with prisons. Not by being in them, but from allof the men who worked for her Grandfather. She figured she was in amaximum security outfit. Except when she was in the. R. units simply didn’t have the memoryto store a complete world. But sometimes a world took ona life of its own; if a user became too immersed in avirtual world, his brainwaves would synchronizecompletely with the V.R. system and the sim wouldcontinue indefinitely, feeding off images from hissubconscious. We called that a “vivid fantasy”, and itwasn’t common–it happened less than one time in amillion–but it was a serious drawback to virtualreality, since the. But what about twenty years from now when our kids need school or college, or braces or advanced medical help? They won’t be enhanced. What will my wives want then? Also, things wear out. How long will the fuel last for the crawler? How long will our ammo last? How many years will the tractor last before a breakdown – a breakdown where we don’t have parts to repair it with?Seeing the look on Morales’ face, Diana could well imagine his thoughts. “The General is going to send additional fuel,.