" She turned to Frank, "twoglasses of Champagne."The tall man did not blink. I climbed onto my stool and the tallman introduced himself as Gilbert. Hi... friend was Ray. Frank wasback quickly with two glasses of Champagne."Thirty," he said to Gilbert.I thought I saw Gilbert scowl but he paid and did his best tocontinue smiling at me. As I lifted my glass, Natalie whisperedin my ear."Don't say anything about the drink."I must have looked puzzled because Natalie gave me a stern look.When I sipped. "Afghanistan?" Scott asked."Any of it, the war or the Marines. Were you scared?"Scott looked at Ed, but Ed was looking out the passenger side window."Sure, I was scared. Been crazy not to be." What about when you were wounded?" I was too busy at the time to think about it. Afterward, I was mad." You think I could have been a Marine?" Ed asked."If you'd wanted it bad enough, sure. You're not thinking of joining are you?" No," Ed replied. "Been thinking is all." You know you can talk to me about. A slight smile creeps onto his face. “Don’t ask me,” he says. “Maybe you should ask Kate or even Jocelyn.”“I will do that,” Pandora says with a shake of her head. She turns around and stomps off for the lab’s exit.River chuckles to himself as he watches the android leave. “That damn robot is worse than a woman,” he says under his breath.”By the time the day has ended, the lab staff have all gone home, including the disgruntled android. When Pandora came back, she didn’t say anything about her. Most of my belongings went into the garage as the house was fully furnished. Dave informed me of one change. He and his fiancé were going to take the larger of the two upstairs bedrooms, so I had a choice of which bedroom I wanted. Not wanting to be near the living room, kitchen and TV, I opted for the smaller of the two upstairs bedrooms. Once I had decided which bedroom I wanted, Dave told me that Julie knew a senior at the University who was also looking for a place to live off campus where.