"Where I am leading with this is I am going to need Thursday and Fridays off for an extended period of time. Vicky is going to do some trips for me bu...t some I have to do. My contract states that I could set my own schedule. I would like to try working three days a week here hoping that still meets the contract requirements? Or do we need to discuss other options?" I asked.During our discussion, you could have heard a pin drop it was so quiet, even Patti's office was deathly quiet. We had ridden. "I trust there areno problems." No Dr Horn, but why are you in a hospital bed?" I couldn't believe thehuge dog was actually talking using a sort of voice synthesizer. Then ithit me, she'd named the dog after me."Alex, I just gave birth. You will have not just the other colonists youwere trained to serve but my child as well," said Katherine."Is my name sake with you?" asked the dog."Alexis, please step in front of a view screen and key the monitor. Alex,Alexis is one of the Beta Sluts assigned. She was not so beautiful but her color was gray and she wore a light color sari. She looks from higher middle class family, she started talking with me like what you do, where you from and all,i asked the same to her she told that she is from hyderabad and her husband works in bangalore so she went there to have some good time with here husband i said did you have fun with him she replied not really? I get surprise and asked why? She keep quit for a while then asked me are you married i told. Pure evil radiated all throughout my body in the form of fear so utterly biting and cold and permeating that I ceased to think in any rational sense and only braced for my landing and the mad dash to get away after that. It didn’t occur to me that a human falling from nearly a hundred feet into water no more than two feet deep (for, that’s where my tipping tree was headed) had almost assuredly no chance of survival, and positively no chance of making any mad dashes, and, in fact, needn’t have.