Mihai said eight hundred a week for twelve months plus a percentage of the sub***********ions, also we would have free sub***********ions to his web s...ite so we could watch her at any time. We agreed and three months later Mihai phone and said she would be picked up next week and transported as livestock by private Jet, she would be taken from the kennels and crated like an animal. All this would be recorded as part of the DVD. On the day three men arrived in a van and Paul got her out, we said. A little disconcerted Ellie asked it, ‘Is there anything the matter?’ The robot looked up. ‘No miss. I was just watching you and learning. Is there anything I can do for you miss?’ ‘No. I need to concentrate on this, so perhaps it would be better if you didn’t come to this room while I’m working.’ Ellie felt she had probably overreacted, but she could not escape the feeling of unease being in the house with a robotic clone of herself. Suddenly finding it had been watching her without her. Half an hour later, Dave lay panting, cuddling her, both having attained the release they sought.What a wonderful and unbelievably great life, Dave thought, and how one's fortunes can change, as he drifted off into a contented sleep. Never in his wildest dreams six or twelve months ago would he have anticipated being in the fantastic situation that he was now.Friday Week 21After a relaxing sleep-in and a leisurely breakfast, Dave drove Jill down to the Information Centre. Here they were told. Never disgrace the generations of your fathers.’ It’s nearly 3000 years old.”“Right. From The Iliad.”“Yes. A father telling his son to never commit a shameful act.”“Which is why you can’t become a politician!”“Yes. Even the best are constrained to be deceitful. Ed Biggers said he hated politicians.”“Are you sure you’re not a druid?”“Yes. I’m sure.”The next evening, Rachel returned to names. “I don’t think it should be Japanese.”“No. Nor Aboriginal. He will have a totem name. That will be either.
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