Suddenly she found herself in high heels which made her hips swing sensuously as she walked and she felt their admiring glances even after she had pas...ed by. She looked down to see her dress had somehow shortened. Mioki had never worn dresses above the knee yet her hemline was now half way up her thigh. Yet the looks were now, if anything, more adoring, more accepting than before. She felt the bodice tighten and conform to her hips and breasts. The top of the dress which had been at her neck. “Problem?” Casey asked.“Everything is within acceptable parameters,” Chris said. “But I understand enough to see that we have a minor fault in the secondary coils for segments five, nine and ten.”“Why so many problems?” Casey asked as the viewscreen showed a shot emerging from the magazine and rising into place.“Exposure to space has a detrimental effect on the rail guns,” the AI said. “Entropy sets in and it is rare that a Patrician doesn’t have issues when the rails are first powered up after. ”“Okay, I’m all ears.”Looking into the glass in her hand she talked about her marriage to Rakesh. She knew all about his flings with the waitresses and put up with them in the hope that one day he would grow out of it. They had often argued about them and he had always denied it saying it was just flirtatious banter. “The final straw came a few weeks ago when I found his credit card statement. Sunita told you about it.”I nodded.“I phoned the credit card company and said I was Rakesh’s. “Well let’s wait a little longer for the sun to go down and then, why don’t we go down to Swindon. It’s on your way home and not much out of my way and perhaps we could act out a little of what we’ve talked about”. I was taken back a little by this suggestion. Yes we had certainly talked about dressing like a whore’s, standing on a street corner’s and acting out my fantasy of being a prostitute. Yes it was my dream but tonight????. I thought about it for all of three seconds. “Yes come on let’s.