She stood there in the nude ready to hug and greet everyone with a big smile on her face. Peter Arnold, however, was frozen in his tracks and speechle...s.As usual Becky stepped forward to save the day.“Why, hello, Mrs Arnold. It’s wonderful to see you again. How lovely you look today and what have you done to your hair? It’s beautiful.” Becky gave her potential mother in-law a big hug then marched right on into the house.That broke the ice and the others soon followed suit. As Danny entered he. "My apologies, my lord, you are right, as always." You are forgiven, Edward. I suggest, however, that you remember this lesson and think about it before you question my judgment again." Yes, my lord." Edward bowed his head again in reverence."Very well, Edward, go out to the Main Courtyard and greet your new troops."Yes, my lord." Edward repeated. He stood, bowed again to his lord, turned, and walked out of the chamber, stopping outside the door for a moment so his eyes could adjust to the. An awkward look passes among us. After repeatedly trying to get ourgirlfriends lo let us have some money to buy our friend a present, andfailing each time, we resigned to our fate and explained to Terry that wewouldn't be getting him anything this year as our girlfriends have a tootight grip over our finances. But we didn't expect them to upstage us likethat."Us girls bought on the behalf of Terry's friends," she continued, "I hopethat you boys don't mind, but we were worried you wouldn't be. The portal opens for a millisecond, retrieves the data from the AI and is gone. Even if someone happens to be looking at the exact spot and the light is good, they would only see a slight distortion that would be gone before their eyes could properly focus on it. I am tempted – damn tempted – to have the AI change the cameras’ programming so that they will go behind the hide and check out what’s past the wall in the damn cave. Something is going on, but what if they are just going through to.