I had thought our little game was over, until Kaila spoke up."Now, that I'm dry, Brent, Truth or Dare?" Oh, fuck no." I laughed. "You aren't going to ...et me with another embarrassing question, Dare." Gotcha." She smirked."What, you expected me to pick dare! Crap." I hated that. Kaila often knew exactly how I'd react to her tricks, and I always fell for it."You'll like this one." She looked at Helen with a vindictive gleam in her eye. "You take Helen in the back room, and you don't come out. “Yeah, sure. I’ll tell Phoebe, too.”They walked up to the rest of the group, staring at the burning debris and all trying to talk at once. Captain Jimmy boomed out, “Okay, everyone inside! Let’s get settled.” The Jensons led the way, leading the three rescued women into the main deck’s salon, followed by Phoebe. Jason waddled behind and was stopped short by the captain. He thought the teen was a most improbable sight, tall and thin, wrapped from mid-chest to mid-thigh in some kind of a cushion,. You nodded. "Do I have a name?" it asked."I'm calling this project, that is... you, the Sexual Understanding and Virtualization Intelligence," you said. "Or SUVI for short." If SUVI had a body it would have nodded, but right now the program was still confined to a standard General Intelligence Management Platform. It was a small and sleek metal box attached to a screen, SUVI's 'eye' perched on top of it."Thank you, Doctor Alan," it said instead. Taking a few seconds to process this along with. .Ahhhh... ! The lyrics of that sweet old country ballad from the 1930's came drifting back on Memory's Tide as I started to write this story ... hence the title.June Richardson wrapped her arm protectively around her daughter's shoulders. They stood watching a lone rider riding away from the wagon train. A few minutes later, he was just a small speck on the distant purple horizon."Mommie, do you think he'll ever come back?" I don't know, Honey," her mother replied honestly."Will we ever see him.