The most recent, though, was so unusual that only one species possessed it. They had been known as the Orichalco. The Orichalco had a special fondness...for entertainment. The Collective had no real use for such things. However, the technology involved could be modified to serve a more useful function in the Collective. The Orichalco's personal hologram technology could be used by the Borg to allow secretive assimilation of new drones. Considering the humanoid brain's immense allocation of. The rest of the class was taking notes. His brown eyes seemed to burn into me, and I could almost feel him undressing me with them. (Not that it would be hard to do at this point, being that my legs were spread open for him).The bell rang and I snapped my legs shut, so embarrassed that I was sure I was redder than a tomato. I rushed to get my things and leave, but Mr. Fuller stopped me.“Please, Ashleigh, sit back down,” he commanded in a soft, almost guttural tone.Oh, shit. I thought. I was. " I'm sorry." Not your fault." So is that why you're not interested in dating? Still getting over your last relationship?" Something like that." She took a deep breath. "I just ... I just needed to get away, you know? Too many things back home reminding me of him, reminding me of us, what we once were. Spending a year up here wasn't what I had always been planning on, but after the breakup it seemed like a good place to re-boot and get my head straight again. And I really don't want all the. There were half a dozen full-sized cities within a 200 hundred mile radius of me, the center of my universe. It was certainly worth the effort to try to pull jobs in from all of them. Maybe I'd have to hire an assistant, et cetera.Using my connections and making cold calls to offer a presentation, everything started settling in one town. I scheduled Pressburg with seven or eight meetings over the course of a week, then sat with a travel agent in the hopes I might find a flight cheap enough I.