.. but when she with Argent, they seemed to be very friendly towards each other. When the disc ended, she studied the papers in front of her more care...ully. Her research team had taken all known data she had of her encounters with Goliath, Xanatos, and a multitude of other factors and had come up with one conclussion. That Argent not being a Gargoyle had to be either 1-a robot, 2-a cyborg, or 3- an artificially enhanced or mutated human. The first two were doubtful but the second sounded more. " "Oh stop. You know I turned 42 last month," she said with a huge smile on her face. "Oh. I forgot since you look so young." I just had to see how far this would go. Changing the subject she said, "So you said you wanna go swimming? You go out and get in and I'llbe out in a few minutes." She stood up and started walking to the stairs to her room. "OK. I'll be waiting," I replied. I ran outside, threw off my shirt, kicked off my shoes and socks, and climbed up the ladder andjumped in. The water. She turned the music into our bedroom far louder than normal. By the time she came into the bedroom, I was naked. She smiled oddly and said, “That’s a good slave”.Reaching behind the bed, she pulled out the restraints I had made several years ago, consisting of leather cuffs connected by seat belt material. Humming softly, she fastened me to the bedposts so I stood facing the bed with my arms spread-eagled. Next, she got a roll of duct tape and taped my ankles together. She then took some. Eventually." They did? Really?" Yeah, they did." That's cool. Then I definitely need to talk to Leah. Is she there?" Yeah, hold on a second, I'll get her."Chris called out for his youngest daughter. When she didn't answer, he told Gina to hold on a minute and then set the phone down on the counter. He found Leah in the den, watching the eleven o'clock news. Her chemistry book lay on the floor and, given that she was already wearing the long t-shirt she called pajamas, he suspected she wasn't.