We were sitting out on the patio when they are back and said for us to drop by in a few minutes. About ten minutes later we decided to go down and jus... before we left the phone rang and I answered to find that our neighbour was calling to say that there had been an accident and that our hedge around the front garden had been damaged. I told Ellen to go down to Ian's and I would finish the conversation with our neighbour. I told him to arrange to have the local landscaper check the damage and. This guy was different, however. For one thing, Claude had a slight unease about Dan, but it conflicted with a stronger sense that this man was here to stay and played for keeps. He might not be perfect, but he gave a damn about Vicki. This fellow wouldn't discard a treasure like her, the way that Tyler had foolishly done. He acted like a man much older than his apparent age of thirty, which made him five years Vicki's junior."Daddy, Trevor, this is Dan. We're engaged. He asked me to marry him. So into the pool I went. I swam over to the end of the pool and I started to do a few lengths just to relax and get some exercise and to also show off a little to these two wet dream fantasy babes that were now laying back on their lounges. There was no one else at the pool except us three so I was able to maneuver myself into several locations to be able to steal glances at these two bodies. Blondie was watching as I swam and I noticed that when I was directly across from them she placed her. Had changed its priority to me as humanity was no longer a threat to it. I anticipated that the A.I. was turning all its resources towards finding a way to defeat me.It was one of the few times I was sleeping, a real sleep. My mind was silent, I was left with just my thoughts. Over the years my guests as I called them, had come to understand my need for sleep and for them to allow me that alone time. I dreamt of Marina. I was standing in a ruined building looking out at the sun. I heard.