"They put these dogs on me. Because supposedly I might be dangerous. You don’t mind the dogs, do you?...No, I see that you don’t." Gomez sighed tremulously. "After three months, the others still keep me at arm’s length. They won’t initiate me into their Clique. You saw the girl, didn’t you? Melanie Omaha, Dr. Omaha from the Kosmosity? Fire, she’s fantastic, isn’t she? But she doesn’t care for men under the dogs; who would, knowing Security’s watching? I’d give my right arm for ten minutes in a discreet with her. Oh, sorry." He looked in embarrassment at Lindsay’s mechanical arm.