"Though I want to make itwork with him and Anatoly sees little point in trying to resume his lifeback in Russia. So we'll try to make a go of it here...."Anatoly's brown eyes widened, but he made no comment.For the next few days they would be in quarantine. It had been decidedbeforehand that Alex, due to his brief contact with Shanice he wouldmake on landing, would be best to join them in the Quarantine Center.Over the next few hours they were thoroughly debriefed before finallybeing assigned. They were humanoids about our size, so they were not intimidated by our physical appearance. They were stubborn at first, but gave in when they found that they could not successfully lie to us. The direct speech-center to speech-center contact provided by the communicator made it easy to detect lies so we were confident in our questioning. Right now, it was imperative that we gain control of the ship, we would wait until later to satisfy our curiosity about other things.What we needed at this. .."Sue interrupted. "That's what drew me to a job with your club." Our customers want to make a game out of it..." What sort of game?" Sue interrupted again."You'll see," he said with a chuckle. "Now, make yourself comfortable. Your shift starts at 8:00 tonight. Someone will come get you. Be wearing just a robe."He left Sue alone in the small room. She looked around. It was neat and clean, but stark and dreary. The walls were concrete blocks painted yellow, and there were no windows. The only. It's an experimental part of me included in the belief that it would help me perform better, similar to your own heuristic routines. My experience in this regard parallels your own in so much as no one realized at the time how much these extras would turn out to benefit each of us."I'm told that more effort was put into creating this part of my response patterns than anything else. This is where many of the memory engrams of real women were encoded. It is also the part of me that I understand.