The first time I heard them, I thought that the school ought to hire them for a dance. I knew they could go non-stop for four hours and that meant we�...��d have a productive afternoon. Kate and I caught the rhythm and painted as if we were one hand. Every so often, we would just be caught up dancing on our platform and into each other as much as the painting. We got our safety harnesses tangled once.But we kept painting.We were working on a picture of an old woman in her tent. I’d only met her. He locked the door behind me. The implant in my head linked me to that room so that I could hear the discussion. He was interrogating my parents as he tried to match the dates where I was away from home to those when I was doing what he is accusing. I got a message via the implant that the camera in here had the cable cut yesterday when there was some air conditioning maintenance.I must give it to the girls. Each was scared of what would happen to them if they didn’t get where they were able to. “An extended fantasy, as subjectively real as the chair you are sitting on” the manual proclaimed, going on to say “you will be experiencing all the sensations of touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing as though the dream was actually happening”.According to the manual, the machine would monitor my energy levels, my blood pressure and heart rate, taking me out of the dream if they reached dangerous levels. However, it also stated that the danger levels were set at a default minimum to start. We worked all day, and we accomplished a lot, but there was this tension. I felt it at every turn. Andrew was tense. He seemed to be nervous. I had talked to him on the phone many times. He was always warm, sometimes flirtatious, but never tense and nervous. I thought that perhaps he had a personal problem that was interfering with his concentration. I am less qualified than many other women to comment on the state of a man’s erection, since my experience with men is somewhat limited. Work has.