Em answered the door when they rang. His big smile was open and he showed no nervousness even though his friend Bill had learned that Janie and Em wer... lovers. Bill reflected that Em had always paid a lot of attention to Janie, but he'd put it down as just being friendly. His friendliness toward Crissy was maybe a little more than being neighborly, truth be told. Bill thought, 'What's good for the gander is good for the other gander.' Em was dressed similarly to Bill, in slacks, and a sports. Petelet out a loud whoosh and collapsed into his chair. Everything wassilent for several minutes and then Joanne looked closely at Pete.Pete's face was turning a deep blue and he wasn't breathing."Oh shit," Joanne managed to say. "This fucker is dead!" Oh, I didn't mean to do it," Josh said. "I just meant to keep him fromcoming at me. All I did was shove him." I... I don't think it was your fault Kitten. I think he died from aheart attack. Oh shit what are we going to do?" Come on Joanne, let's. "It is a virus," she explained. "It was activated the instant we powered up the Nexus. It spread to every single node and they're continually re-infecting each other and any other new nodes that we add." How do we get rid of it?" Isolate every node from the network, reformat them and then bring each one back online. If just one infected node is missed, the virus will establish itself again and we'll be right back to square one." How long have you known this?" Since I saw the core dump on the. "Why are you angry all of a sudden?" He was asking plaintively, trying again to interpose himself between her and whatever she was searching for."Can't we even talk about it?" Hero asked a tad more forcefully, finally reaching out to touch her arm."Meyow?" Ryo-chan suddenly stopped, at last looking right at him. Almost as if just seeing him standing there."No, no." Ryo-oki signed, suddenly very aware of how agitated Hero now was."Its nothing like that!" She added adamantly."Well, could you.