... erm,”Beccy looked so cross glaring at me, her beautiful green eyes flashing, her stern face looking so commanding, her posture so domineering as...she put her finger up which I knew meant I had to stop talking.“Enough Laura, answer me truthfully, were you masturbating just before I came in.”I had been caught out. She knew I was masturbating but I reckoned she couldn’t prove it so I looked straight at her and lied.“No,” I said.“Really?” she snapped. “Take your knickers off right now.”“Why?” I. Like to icefish? The Cloches built ice shanties to rent. Oh yes, the town really blossomed ... right through the entire winter, the spring and the summer was spectacular. With a ticket bought at the Shell, someone regularly won at least a thousand dollars every lottery drawing.The excitement was just slacking off in the fall when Mom bought a ticket and WON a million ... I had nothing to do with that!! I swear! And I did that too ... swore ... and got my mouth washed out with soap."Son of a. How's the system running?"Gretchen answers, "Things are fine now. I'm sure glad that you had set things up in a virtual environment otherwise we'd be screwed. So what are your plans if you can't decompile the virus?"I think for a moment and ask, "Can we setup an isolated connection to the Internet?"Gretchen replies, "Give me about an hour and I can pull one of the pairs off the OC3 network and isolate it. It will be slower, and will of course slow up our network, but it will be totally isolated. .. it was the stuff of men's science fiction fantasies!Then it was my turn to tell my story. As we got closer to the group she had come with, I told L'natria how I was on a routine flight from my home on Earth to the moon base to deliver supplies for the mining operations there. I told her about the solar flare and how I got knocked unconscious and crash-landed here. She had never heard of Earth or my moon or even my solar system. Which told me that somehow I had been blown a long, long, LONG.