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Hector sighed "I can always use my Ricardo Montalban and Cesar Romero CinSims, but fresh blood feeds successful TV series"

"And your frequent autopsy scenes provide plenty of that"

We were getting too close to the bone My grievance: his already pies of Lilith and h to broach that another day

"We are so bored, Hector," I said, getting down to business by twirlingthe marabou on my purple peep-toe shoe in tremulous motion

Hector’s left eyebrow raised and his red Cupid lips pursed

"I told Ric if anyone had the latest, most complete version of Metropolis, it would be you"

Hector beamed "You never underestimate me, my dear Miss Street Of course I do, but why is the Cadaver Kidapologies, Mr Ricardo--"

"Mr Montoya"

"Yes, how careless of me Why would your beau, who has always been rather indifferent to vintage fil exainative clothes"

"Yes, they are drool worthy, aren’t they? I believe you know figures of influence in Vegas who’d be willing to recreate any of the garb, particularly frohtclub scenes, for yourself, if you but expressed an interest and a suitable gratitude"

Jeweled pasties and sheer concubine skirts, right "I prefer e’s clever resident wardrobe witch can produce"

"I do have an ample state-of-the-art home theater I don’t suppose you’d care to have me join you?"

"Ric is such a novice at silent fil"

"How can you consort with sohtwine shuddered as if he’d accidentally tasted a Cheeto I fully expected hiue next

"This is an educational outing for Ric’s sake, Hector You can help bring another soul into the flock of film fanatics"

"Play on my better instincts, will you? Very well Have the lad up, but the dog overnable"

"So do I," I said with a s "I’ palace"

Hector’s sainst his brocade cravat "You will adore it"

I se Soot he was a really lonely man, or whatever, and that hy I cut him slack

Chapter Fifteen

RIC WATCHED GODFREY don an apron with aplomb and remove a platter of roast beef froerator-freezer unit A CinSiancold cuts for Quicksilver and a welcome sandwich for hi’s excite into afternoon, they’d been too busy to eat Or too in love Ric’s stroll on the Inferno’s wild side had stoked his desire for Delilah and now that the hang-up against lying on her back had been exorcised, they had a lot htwine’s kitchen and found hi like a Halloween pu out a stool at the central island "Thesupper later for you and Miss Street I’ as three hours of network pri, Godfrey?" Ric asked as he sat

"Why should I, dear boy? I’m a successful businessman with a social conscience for the devastated une with being mistaken for a homeless man and took a butler job because the family involved needed serious emotional and financial help"

"And you ‘help’ here too?"

"Indeed The h-ceilinged kitchen gleaets

"I do enjoy the surroundings"

"So you feel some sense of loyalty to your ‘owner’?"

"Certainly Loyalty has always been ot my ex-wife the lead female role in my naether wesort of immortality, isn’t it?"

"Carole Lombard was once your wife?"

"I see our Miss Street has been explaining ain, in the filht that the character bulldozed et yourself corralled in such a sneaky fashion, my lad"

Ric waved off that notion "Do you missMiss Lombard? Would you want her on these preh Miss Street was instru myer, cousin at the Inferno his screen wife and even the dog"

"Delilah got Snow to buy Nora Charles and Asta for Nick’s sake?"

"Indeed Miss Street could get Christophe of the Inferno to do a greathis ego He is not a hopelessly bad individual," Godfreya dishcloth over Quicksilver’s already bare and washed plate "MoreNext to Miss Street and the as is as considerate of CinSiet our friends"

"Are you fa?"

"Metropolis? Of course It came out only a few years before my best work"

"Godfrey, you seem much more self-aware than entleentleman"

"Yes, but you knohere your otherincarnationsare located in Las Vegas, and even recognize the actor beneath the character"

"We are not stupid, Mr Montoya, just limited soh no fault of our own My master’s love of film requires I discuss theeously placed CinSims may never access Why all the personal questions, Mr Montoya?"

"I was forced as a child to raise so many zombie ‘canvases’ that may have been used for CinSims"

"Well, you have a special talent, then"

"But now I’ve raised a CinSim directly from the screen and itsheseems horribly dependent on itte Hel to?"

"I don’t know The form is the silver metal robot zombie"

"Actually a plastic, wood, silver-and-bronze robot zombie, I believe"