”“Mom asked whether you were staying on campus, too. I suppose we aren’t quite as discreet as we might hope to be.” Andy’s father hadn’t c...ome into the room after they’d made love, though.“I think my intentions were clear as soon as I introduced you to him. All he had to guess was how successful I was being.”“When you introduced me to him?” she asked.“I don’t think I’d ever done that with another girl -- not since I could drive. The boy has to meet the girl’s parents and have them lay down the. "I turned away from him and sought out Lauren. She was still up on the arm of the dish, hanging on tightly and looking very confused. "Hang on, love," I said. "Just give me a sec to get you down."She smiled weakly at me. "Hang on?" she said. "Yeah, the thought did occur to me."I found the joystick control, walking around the prostrate Victor without a second glance to get there, and used it to lower the dish to waist-high level over the platform. I stepped back onto the platform and offered. I was going to wait until later to look at them.”“You didn’t have to do that!” Liz said. “But, thank you!”“It’s part of their routine training,” Chris said. “They don’t know who lives there. They do urban counter-insurgency training like this all the time. I figure a stranger in your neighborhood would count as an insurgent. They’re not taking photos or filming it. It’s just visual inspection only. They’re tasked with identifying the cars that appear to live there and to document any that don’t. The chime, indicating a new email, brought Ida back from her reverie, and she switched windows to see which one of her friends was sending some crazy comic or picture that would make her laugh. When she saw the address though, her heart began to pound, it was from Professor Sherridan, and the subject was `Congratulations.’ She only realized that she had shrieked out loud when Craig reacted and jumped slightly on the couch. ‘What’s up?’ he asked as he moved to look over her shoulder. Ida could.