I promise." He rocked her as she had rocked him, holding her close with a tenderness that had tears backing up in her eyes.She finally pushed away and...took a deep breath, turning her face from him. "I should go check on the kids." Wait, Carlie. That phone call." He stopped her with a hand on her arm. "They are plowing the road today sometime, he said tonight at the latest. We'll be able to go into town." Oh." She looked down at him as she stood. "I'll be ready to go then, whenever you want to. " Switching over now."I logged out of the voicechat, and called her on video chat. Five seconds later I was looking at her."Disappointed?" she asked with her quirky smile."Never." Alright, it was a little white lie.She was sitting in a pair of baggy pajama bottoms, and an oversized sweat-shirt. "Getting over some kind of bug. Trying to keep warm," she said."You should have told me. You could be resting." This is the best rest I can get. It makes my day." Me too. I'm outside DC by the way." So. ”“Thank you," I whispered and know that I was grinning as I squeezed Nicola and pushed up to kiss her.“You’re welcome. Well, Steph solved the problem of what we were going to do. She said, ‘Oh, fuck me!’ and I think she was going to say more but Alex cut her off. ‘That’s a great idea,’ she said and burst out laughing. I was still a bit in a daze and wondering just what the hell was going on. Alex took the strappy one off Steph and gave it to me. ‘Here,’ she said, ‘wear this, I’ll wear mine.’. "Yes, and that same 'right-thinking' world would have no problem using what we have here to create better soldiers, more devastating weapons and eventually enslave entire populations. In an effort to avoid that, but still succeed, they've created what you see here." She waved around the room.Soldiers? Weapons? Powerful stuff, apparently."I know I should feel horrified by all this, but all I can think is I agree with you that technology can be used for good or for ill. It doesn't give you the.