"I lead them into the kitchen, pouring iced tea into my nicer cups, waiting for them to start talking. Everyone glanced at each other, trying to decid...e who would go first. That's when Shawqy stepped up."Look Mohga, we all love you, you are great, a good wife, and damn, sexy as hell..." I felt myself blush, Shawqy was very attractive, tall, and lean, and he boxed so his nose always looked slightly off centre from being broken so many times. "Mohga, Yehia is cheating on you, he has been for the. But now she had no one to be intimate with and she had been kind of horny for days she had thought about cruising her favorite bar but it was also his favorite bar too shit she was going to have to find another bar damn it she liked that place too lots of cute guys and great music oh well this long drive was just the ticket to clear her head...until now that is...Her Mother had always told her never pick up strangers on the road you never know what kind of person they are and you could wind up. We were led through the main floor’s dining area by a maitre’d (who neglected to ask who we were yet seemed to know us intimately) and down a flight of stairs to a beautiful patio. The walls were of the original brick from the times before the flooding, when Sacramento was built one story lower. Paintings on these walls were intermingled with ivy and potted plants. The lighting was candles and small fire bowls. A large fountain occupied the centre of the patio with its cool water gently flowing. Deborah tapped commands into the interface, the ceiling opened revealingtransmitters and receivers of different types she picked a touchpanel offa table and set it to keyboard mode, she typed 'are you sentient?' andtransmitted in many languages.In less then five seconds she got a reply 'confirmed'.Annette clasped her hands in a prayer gesture though Manny knows thesisters haven't had much religious experience in their shelteredatheistic life beyond their father telling them a higher power that.