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This chapter will answer a few quesions. It's slow too, but I promise more excting cahpters are coming.

I felt sick as I woke up. I looked out the window to see a black and white wall just outside the glass. "Well it's good to see that you're awake." Miranda at the foot of the bed. "Tina was getting worried."

"Miry. Where are we? How long have I been out?" I asked

"Miry? I thought my name was Miranda." A look of confusion came across her holographic face.

"It is, but Miry is short for Miranda."

"Oh, ok. Anyways we are in Tina's hover car. You've been asleep for a little more than a day. Two days if we were still on Earth." Miry's hand went to her ear. "Tina wants you to come out of the house so she can talk to you." Miry disappeared. I slowly got up and headed for the kitchen. I opened the door of the fridge, then grabbed a few blocks of cheese. I popped them in my mouth one at a time once I was done I left the house, I was taken back by what I saw. Outside the glass was a bunch of orange holographic buttons. The terrarium was sitting in what must have been the passenger seat. Tina smiled when I looked up to her, but then she focused back on whatever was outside the window. She dress just like the last time I saw her.

"Have a nice nap?" She asked.

"Um....yea. Where are we going? Why do the rooms in here have toys and clothes?" I asked. Tina sighed.

"We are going to my work. I think you'll like it there. Now as for the gear. Normally, when someone." She shuddered "orders a human a personalized habitat is created just for them. You were an on the-spot save, so I didn't have time to wait for a habitat to be built. To fix the problem I." She sighed again. "I stole from an area that had been hit by a tornado." A guilty look shot across her face. "I didn't want to, but I wanted to make you happy. The only alternative was to keep in a box or something." I stood in silence. The house I had slept in, the boats, all of it stolen. Even with my limited memory, I could remember that stealing was wrong. "Robert? Are you ok?" She asked her eyes switching between me and whatever was out the window.

"Yea." I said. "I'm just surprised that all this was stolen." I looked around the tank. When I saw the lake and pool two questions popped in my head. "Ok. Two questions. One how did you know everything about me? Two will the water spill if the tank is tipped over?"

"Alright first when you are asleep a small, well small to us, device is planted on your back. It allows the user to see any and all stats about the person. That's how I knew about your drug tolerance. As for the second one, the water will never spill. There is a small gravity generator on the bottom of the tank that keeps the water and everything still, even if the tank was upside down the water would still be kept on the 'bottom'. Any other questions?"

"What is your work?" I asked. She glanced over and gave a smile.

"Why would I ruin the surprise? You should go back into the house I've added a few things." I turned and went back inside. I could help, but wonder what she added. I wandered the house and found that a laptop was sitting on top of the dinner table. I opened it and booted it up. The only user was one named Andrew.

Great. I thought. Another stolen device. The account was password protected. "Hey Miry. What's the password for this computer?"

"One moment." Came the reply with no real source. "The password is andrewrulzs with a z." I typed in the password and the computer took me to the desktop.

"Thanks Miry."

"Any time."

How am I not freaking out about the AI? I thought. The fact that I had been staying calm in these extremely stressful situations confused me once again. The desktop of the laptop was filled with varying icons. It had everything from screen recorders to star wars games. Whoever this Andrew was he, was one big nerd. There even a few giantess stories all typed up by individual chapters. As I was looking through the laptop I found audio logs. I opened a few and listened. Andrew was, as he explained in the first log, worried that a new civil war would start in the United States, and that is why he started the logs. Miry appeared next to me and said.

"Tina wants you to keep looking around the house. She has a few more surprises hidden." I logged off the computer and got to look around some more. I found a closet that I had not seen before. Inside were all kinds of sports gear, from footballs to surf boards. They were all packed in nice piles, some were even boxes. I closed the closet, and kept looking around to see if I could finds anything else. "Hey Robert." Came Miry's voice as she materialized in front of me. "Tina is wanting you outside."

"Miry, why doesn't Tina just tell me herself? Why does she go through you?"

"Tina speaks a different language than you do. The only way you can understand her is because of my translator, but Tina, or any Babylonian for that matter, must have a line of sight on you in order for the translator to work. Otherwise you would hear a jumble of syllables. Now Tina has once again told me to tell you to get outside now." I headed outside yet again. Tina had moved the tank up on what must've been a dashboard. I was looking out the window at a building floating lazily with a backdrop of bright blue sky. We passed a floating sign that had a bunch of weird symbols on it. Miry, who was standing next to me, said. "That sign read 'Simon Polk Elementary School'."

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