There were very few people in the café. Brian directed me to a booth in the back. He sat on one side and I sat on the other. We ordered coffee. Brian...asked the waitress if Henry was there, and it was only seconds later when a tall, black woman took a seat next to Brian. She kissed him on the cheek, laid her head on his shoulder, and asked, ‘When are you coming back to me, Lover?’ Brian didn’t bat an eye. ‘This is Randy. He’s my sister’s boyfriend. Randy, this lady is the love of my life.’. She located the relevant file and found Valada’s iris pattern, then transmitted that data to the retinal scanner, which immediately acknowledged her identity. Smiling in satisfaction that the whole process had been so painless, Irillith was about to exit the archive when she noticed an intriguing file. She accessed the data log and found thousands of records tracking Valada’s visits to the facility; the entries started 10,097 years ago and spanned the next two centuries.Eager to share her. The furniture was modern, clean, new, and efficient but had no history. She would trade it all in a minute for just a week in the comfortable surroundings of her old home. Chad had brought her to that home on Bell Whistle as his bride almost 45 years earlier. Her first weeks in that home had been a series of seemingly endless and foreboding days; days that would have her counting the minutes until Chad's return. At first she could not find anything to keep her interest. She had never been a. I’ll try the singing as we go, is that all right?’‘Sounds good Liese, we’re starting off with ‘Goodbye To You’.’We launch into it and there’s a few seconds as she adjusts to us and then we start to click. She’s very solid and she watches us closely to see if we make any changes, and she kicks in her vocal at just the right spot with the rest of the girls, and makes a lightning quick adjustment as she’s on the same note that Deanna is, we finish up and we all look at her with respect.‘Very nice,.