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"Wow, did you hear that cry of horror?" Tom marveled "Good job with the shirtless pics,his chin "I thought it sounded like a shriek of delight"

"Sure We can ask her tonight, buddy"

Vik sighed tragically "She’ll lie Face it, To"

"IT’S NOT TRUE," Wyatt told Yuri urgently later, when they were all hanging out "I don’t find Vik enticing"

"Vik says you do," Toaaht, he and To the with them; he was sprawled on the floor of the plebe common roo show of dying of what he called a boredo, because he thought playing chess was thepeople play chess

By silent but unani and pretended they didn’t notice the dra on behind theh He’d thrashed hard enough to upend a table, and noas lying mock dead on the floor

"I ," Wyatt said, louder, and the three of theue with her

When he didn’t, she raised her eyebrows, reluctantly impressed

"He’s determined," Tom said

Yuri cleared his throat, and Tonored the sad eep sound Wyatt couldn’t helphis next move

Tom examined the board, then plucked up his bishop

"No, Tom!" Wyatt cried "Don’t"

"Wyatt," Toainst Yuri yourself, that’s fine, but stop tellingthis mano a mano, not a womano"

"And no computero," Yuri added

"Computero?" Wyatt echoed

"No coreed that chess must be played between two huently "We do not let the neural processors do the work, or it will beco each other, which will not be rewarding" He took Toht Wyatt ain

"Wyatt!"

"I can’t help it, Tom," Wyatt said "That was a bad move"