SCMR Chpt 105

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==Chapter 105 - Self Configuring Modular Robot==
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Katherine...
...Steiner-Davion contributed to the bridal shower. Being a good sport or something. Liz discovered she couldn't manage to get drunk-a side effect, she theorized, of the experimental treatments.
Thus, she found herself wrangling four young women into the limo at 0300 AM Avalon City time, and holding Yvonne's hair as the younger woman vomited.
"Isss...'snot fair Lizzhie...Hoirk!!!" Yvonne painted the paving stones with the night's eating, mixed with fruity alcohol. "Y're not even drunk!!"
"I know.. I know...but remember. I have a higher tolerance for that stuff since I lived on worse for years."
"It IS kind of horrifying, Liz." Katherine observed, as Elizabeth wiped her friend's mouth with a nappie.
"Yeah, says some scary things about what I went through, doesn't it?" Elizabeth commented, "I tried to warn Arthur off, but you know how he gets..."
"Nothing is impossible!" Katherine imitated Arthur's tone almost perfectly for a woman.
"Yep...You're sober enough."
"I was intending to be our designated carer." Katherine said with mock seriousness.
"Rumors say Galen Cox?" Liz prodded.
"Still a maybe, he's handsome, and sweet, and accomplished...one of Victor's best friends even." Katherine observed.
"So no fire when you think of him."
"No...I could do worse...but I can't escape feeling I can do better."
Elizabeth simply nodded, "I get that." 
"No judgment?"
"Oh, I'm judging the hell out of you all the time, don't you know?" Liz's tone was laced in self-mockery, "Why, how could I possibly empathize with you not finding your one true love?? remember, Kate, my parents fought constantly and my mother was an abusive alcoholic, and a lot of that wouldn't have been that way, if they hadn't settled for less!" she gestured, "I get it, I got lucky, Arthur's...perfect, wonderful, determined, intelligent, good in bed..."
"Already??"
"Since we were thirteen." Liz corrected, "I have no idea why he settled on me, Penny's prettier, Sierra's more fun than I am..."
"...but not according to my brother."
"Bingo." Liz agreed, "What I keep dreading, is that he'll change his mind, or get tired of me, or become bored...but your situation? Yeah, that's perfectly normal and even healthy. You should break it off with Cox and let him down gently, and go find someone that sparks for you! Remember, in the end we're the ones who have to live our lives."
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