I needed to hide it there before New Years Eve as I knew Mark would be coming over to "celebrate" the holiday with mom and I wanted to visually captur... their special night together.Time was running out. It was three days before the holiday, and I really needed to get the camera set up.Mom left the house for a little while to get us a pizza for dinner and with the house empty it gave me the opportunity to place my movie maker in its new home.I selected the least obvious location which was in her. I’ve got to take it easy for another ten days at least.”She laughed.“Otherwise I’d cream her, and Alex knows it.”My lizard brain immediately wondered exactly what kind of creaming she had in mind. I rubbed her back between her shoulder blades. She smiled and purred.“I think I’d like to see that, Aída.”She poked me.“I’ll bet you would, Michael.”I kept up my mini-backrub until Alejandra and her opponent came out on the court for the coin toss. Alejandra won and chose to serve.It was a three-hour. “Meritocrat Shanzar of the Terraforming Bureau was co-opted instead. The trials that day were all to do with a dispute on placements within Municipal Services.”“Municipal Services again. I keep hearing about stuff that has to do with them,” I muttered.“Did Shanzar influence the verdicts?” Amantil asked.“It is possible, he did speak out for further investigations of Municipal Services, rather than fining them and referring them to you for another audit,” the AI replied.“Someone is hiding. .. it was disturbing." "Like guilt or..." It's difficult to get the words out, but I finally say, "Overly aggressive fantasy." She looks at me with surprise, then quickly tries to cover that up. "Oh? Victim revenge?" Hearing it put into such a succinct term is somewhat shocking. I nod. "Sadism?" Hearing that word scares the shit out of me. I nod again. "Unusual, but not harmful unless it persists. Masochism would be worse. I'm not qualified to counsel you, but I've been through... a lot. I'm.