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And just like that, we were both heading off to the stars together.
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I still ended up in the lower decks. Mr. Walsh assured me I would
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be easily reachable if he needed anything. He mostly seemed
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put-out by the whole thing. I gladly took the chance to stay out
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of his way.
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The trip to IO took a leisurely five days. On the third day, Mr.
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Walsh The Second delivered the signed contract to me. He didn't
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say much but I sensed something different in that dead gaze of his.
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Had Judy already run him through our plan?
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On the fourth day, Judy visited me. She told me to get off the
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shuttle with them in IO and then to pretend I was going to extend
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my stay there. She and the Walshes would be making the return trip
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three days later, after Mr. Walsh concluded his business. I was
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instructed to sneak onto that return shuttle. That's where the
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whole thing was going to go down.
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I was instructed to do a lot of things, but I wasn't listening to
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what she was saying. I was drinking up that Honeysuckle voice of
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hers. I couldn't help myself, I pulled her close and kissed her.
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She kissed me back, but not with her usual vigour. She seemed
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preoccupied. I let her go. She told me she couldn't stay long.
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She told me she was sorry. She told me all I had to do was stick
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to the plan and we would be together soon. She told me, "Plenty of
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time for all that other stuff later".
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That was our last kiss.
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Maybe you won't believe me when I tell you this, but I never slept
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with her, not properly. We spent many nights together, we held
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each other tightly. That was enough for me. I wanted more, yes,
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but I was willing to wait. She was shy. It seemed strange for an
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android to be shy about those things, especially one programmed for
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love. It might seem peculiar to you that a guy could be with a
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sex-robot and just be happy with the companionship, the love, but I
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was. Anyway, I always thought we would be together properly some
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day. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about a lot of things.
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