" Murmured Jillian."Ten to one?" Meg was scornful. "I'd give evens." They exchanged knowing glances. Bobbie had a big smile as she said."I have never ...known my cousin to be that eager." Charles laughed."Not even when he went to bed with you?" Bobbie was shocked. She hadn't realised that her husband had known about that."How did... ?" Charles took her hand."My darling Bobbie. You have been bouncing on him since he was seventeen. Did you not think that I would cotton on to that after ten years?. When she first started teaching at Borman ten years ago, he used to flirt with her, put his arm around her, and even kissed her on the lips at a faculty Christmas party. She once gave one of his star athletes a poor grade, and he got the principal to intervene and make her raise the grade. To this day he has a condescending, "little lady" attitude with her.His star guard, Rick, is one of her students, and a poor, ill-mannered one. Earlier this year, Mrs. Carlson was walking through a crowded. We get the whole brain, every synapse.That's a lot of damn data, Mr. Howard. A whole hell of a lot. And storagespace is cheap, relatively speaking, but still... it's a whole hell of alot. I was working on compression algorithms that would make it so wecould keep a person's brainscan at 100% fidelity, but reduce the storagerequirements. By the mid-fifties we had gotten the storage space requiredfor a full brain scan down 31%."My compensation was standard at the time. I was making 200 a year,. We’d go back to how we were and never speak of what had happened.I felt a moment of balance, teetering back and forth.Holding my breath, heart racing in my chest, I finally told my brain to shut up. My fingers moved the bedsheet that covered me to one side. Just slightly. It could have been a random twitch, if she’d wanted to see it that way. Just enough to reveal my hip. And the fact that I was naked underneath.But Violet saw it. Without speaking, she crossed the room to my bed.It wasn’t.