Once inside the cell, the door shut and the force field disappeared, leaving the prisoner in the cell. It was a completely automated process, which me...nt it didn’t require staff to run the prison.Evan and Paul looked over one cell, with Evan chuckling, “This is nicer than my house! I think I’ll just stay here.”Mark said, “That’s not the right message to send starting your interim leadership. If the city votes to join the Federation, like so many communities across the country have, your houses. Nobody to care about me, nobody to cuddle with, nobody to make love with. I have nothing. I went from being a happily married man to ... a nothing! A cypher!”“Oh, Paul! That’s not true! I still love you as a brother. We all still love you, but as a brother. Look, I know this is hard for you to understand and it must have been very upsetting when you found them together like that, but we do love you. And God loves you, too. You know that, don’t you?”“This has changed my relationship with God,”. "Sounds like a country song title to me," he admitted.At the time of that exchange we were sitting on the stainless steel and leather chairs of my dinning set, while we finished the warm up coffee."You know for a woman your age, your boobs are holding up well," Billy said."Is that like? You don't sweat much for a fat girl?" I asked.'I didn't mean it that way at all. I was just marveling at what the doctors can do now. You and Jennifer look so natural and so young." he said making it even. She would have words with the madame at some point, when she felt up to it. Just then she knew she couldn’t confront her. A lot of the masked members of the sisterhood were headed in the general direction that they were walking, but apparently the initiate had some designated sitting place. So Madame Juliette was leading them at as much of a breakneck pace as could be managed within the milling crowd, with rapid volley of excusez-mois and pardonnez-mois to warn people. They were moving along.