Quickly I called her up on my communicator. Thankfully the two probes orbiting the planet boosted my signal and within a second Hope came on line."Hel...o Charles," Hope said in greeting when communications was established. "Are you ready to party?" I am indeed," I told the sentient computer in a cheerful manner. "Are your probes on line and ready to go?" They are Charles," Hope replied. "Both probes have dispersed micro-cameras into the castle ground and they have identified each and every. And it’s a very serious commitment to take responsibility for a school full of students. I’ll know better after Sensei Jim’s trip to Japan next year.”“That’s going to be a real challenge for you.”“Yes. And I need your help. Call it self-interest if you want, but I don’t want you to quit. I can’t do it by myself next summer. I am NOT ready for it.”“Sensei Jim thinks you are,” she said.I smiled, “Remember what you said about listening to nuances? What he said to me was that he wanted you and me. Each photo was date and time-stamped so there was a continuous record the way she wanted it kept. Even though it currently was only a stretched canvas with a pencil drawing on it, it showed steady progress on the client’s project. She was pleased, both with the project and with the records I kept.Of course, when there was no client involved, I didn’t need the record, but while we were on our date to the zoo concert, Melody had been snapping photos and captured my initial drawing while I was. . perhaps she was afraid that she was not so pretty to the men. If a man like this Randall would tell her of her beauty she could believe it because she wanted it to be so. She was foolish. She did not remember what a good man she had already. She will learn. It will hurt her but ... she will learn."I sat for a while, digesting Adi's words. Was it as simple as that? Did she get distracted by a man who complimented her on her looks when all along I knew just how beautiful she was? Was it that.