"Sara didn't respond.The Mechanic looked my way. "I don't want her! She's already damaged. There's nothing left to break in her." There's still plenty... to break in her body. And don't you love that, breaking bodies?"The Engineer's hard boots clomped across the floor as he came to me. He didn't look happy, but it appeared that the Professor's word was law. He grabbed my hair. "So, deary, what will it take to break you again?"I didn't answer him."I want to untie her," he said."Do as you wish," the. .. Jes' takes 'em longer to work through it in their system. An' they got pretty thick tongues. Some thorny stuff's OK. Jes' hafta see. These sausages are real good. Think I c'n get me a couple more without the noodles?" Why not?" I ordered him a pair. The waitress looked like Charlie was a Martian or something. Tall, skinny guy with a digestion of stainless steel."What's this Oohlaroo place we're goin' tomorrow?" U-l-u-r-u," spelled out Weena."It's a gigantic rock southwest of here. It was. ”At this, I finally turned around and gave them a curious look. “What are you saying?”Josh grinned. “Okay, get this: we’re gonna jerk each other off.”My mouth nearly dropped open, and I looked to Logan, who was similarly as shocked as I was.“Yeah, you heard that right. Jerk each other off.”“As in, hands on the next guy’s dick, pumping them till they cum all over your hand.” Isaac added.“N-No way.” I was the first to break the silence, laughing. “T-That’s not right, we can’t do that.”“Can’t?”. . college educated and in debt to their brows ... suburbanites. They are neighbors ... because they want their children to marry into like families.Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand years ago, (315,000 yo) plus or minus a few thousand, the Austin’s progenitors were in incubators. The word incubator doesn’t fit ... not really ... Stasis Chamber? Maybe. Resident in the mind of a Super Artificial Intelligence? Yeah ... that’s more like it.Three Hundred Fifteen Thousand is an important number. Three.