Thus she'd arrived two months previously at Heinlein Station and taken command of the outpost that orbited among the jagged bits of debris that surrou...ded a star with no planets. Otherwise the Confederacy AI had admitted the area would probably have been a prime target, as it was it was behind the line of the Sa'arm advance. The station AI had squawked about the fact that the fast courier that had delivered Marguerite had insisted that the pod she'd occupied be added to the station. How the AI. ’ ‘Yep.’ Cindy said. ‘So you don’t think someone is going to push some diamonds through the County while this is going on?’ ‘No.’ I said, dropping my voice. ‘The FBI got some info that there will be a diamond shipment Monday night. Our TCPD sources have not heard a thing, nor have our C.I.s, so I really think this is the real deal, while that first shipment may have been a dry run or a much smaller delivery. Croyle is already preparing our raid, and she’s making sure nothing is written down. ”“Let me go and finish in the kitchen.”Looking around Helene had made a very romantic setting for us. There were candles on the dining table and the main lights had been dimmed. Again there was a lovely smell in the room and there was also some romantic music playing quietly away.A few minutes later she came back into the room carrying two wine glasses and handed one to me.“Phil,” and she raised her glass towards me, “to us, may we have a very long, very romantic, very sexy and very rewarding. For a few minutes she clung to the idea that I might have done some fancy programming. But I invited her to talk to Spook, and after a few test questions she took her fingers off the keyboard and turned to me, her eyes wide."Jackie, is this really true?" Her tone was astounded. "I've typed in questions I know you don't know, I've used slang, I even tried a little French and you don't speak it, I don't see how you could possibly have done this. Am I really talking to a machine?" You're talking.