There was a backup automatically made of my mindstate, sent to my personal sim, in case I was somehow destroyed. The backups knew they were not the or...iginal, and weren't supposed to wake up, anyway, unless I was unavailable.Of course, that's not what happened. Somehow, a sizable mutation in the copy -- preserving the original checksum! -- had changed my backup's perception of herself. She didn't believe she was me, she believed she was superior to me. And while I slept, for pleasure, longer. "It's comfortable," she said. "Thank goodness it's high enough to make the traffic in the street bearable."She wore a pale blue silk negligee with a black velvet collar, the negligee tightly belted in a way that emphasized the ample curves of her bosom and hips. Her figure was more appropriate to the fashion before the war, but she seemed unconcerned by that. The hem of the negligee almost covered her ankles. She wore dark blue slippers and on the front of each slipper was a pale blue. ?And sooooo? Tell me about your theory, Alaina?? said Soraya.?Dr. Gradkowski,? Alaina finally said, in tone that mocked the first part of his name.The mere mention of the name caused the other girls to laugh out loud. This happened a lot in their little gatherings. Soraya and Becky would laugh a lot, while Alaina held court. While they all prided themselves on being crazy in all the right ways, Alaina had a certain audacity that the others could only admire. When the laughing was over,. ." he looks at the wolf, clearly struggling to speak, "its may sound stupid, but I want someone to hold me."The wolf sits in silence, waiting for him to continue, so he goes on "I want someone to clutch me dearly, to just sit with me when the times get rough and things are falling apart. I want someone whom I just lay in their embrace and know what it means to feel loved, what it means to have someone care about you on a level that no other person could."The man sighs, "this is just stupid" the.