He had to get her a room. William let Lisaslump on his shoulder as he made his way to the front desk. The raven-haired,emerald green-eyed woman behind... the counter smiled dreamily at him."Any room for two please," he said. "Put it under William and Lisa Dasher.But if anyone asks, we ain't here." Newlyweds, eh? Want a little confidentiality?" The employee smiled. "Well, Ihope your romance lasts through this trip. Who knows, you might end up alittle more open-minded after staying here. We have. A few days later I received a message from him on my messenger. For the next several months we stayed in contact via the Internet, phone and his two-way. He was a truck driver and his job was finally bringing him close to my area. I had mixed feelings first time we would be meeting face to face so I was a bit scared of how things would go. Would he really like me? Would I be pretty enough? So we made plans to meet in Chicago right off the interstate so it would be easy for me to. And his final words to me were alsocryptic. "If you want to last in this business, take notes. Lots ofnotes. Keep them somewhere safe." That got me thinking, which in myline of work, was a dangerous thing. If Rocco had kept records - aclear violation of omerta, then perhaps I should as well. I decidedthat his advice was worth considering, and I began to take notes,secreting them in a dusty old box in a storage room at St. Rafael'schurch. Judging from the dust, the box hadn't been moved. Once you decided on a lot and paid the deposit, they would upload the lot plan, and design restrictions for that lot, to a holocube. You would then hire an architect and they would either design a new building or upload one of their existing designs onto the holocube, as long as it met the design restrictions.Once the design was finalized, you would then activate the holocube on the lot and neighbours would have a period of time to contest the construction with the elected community official..
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