Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

Before the separation she would have refused thisexperiment just to piss him off, now she was forcing it onhim. Maybe she was trying to make it up to him, maybe shewas trying to get him to get his lawyer to change hisdemands. She didn't understand that the lawyer pretty muchdid what it did. The Shark-IV had several user panels but theycontrolled things like what kind of suit it wore, the color andstyle of hair, features, build, the sound and tone of voice itused, its manners and personality type and what hobbies itshould speak of in social settings. This one had settings forgolf, sailing, sport fishing, scuba, flying and horse breeding,with wealth level settings and other custom settings in eachhobby. If you had it in casual dress, that setting would alsochange the emblem on its shirt. He left it on golf. It could talkmuch more intelligently about golf than he could. The Shark-IV had no user panel for setting what kind of settlement youwanted, all it did was go after the most it could get under thelaw. He would have had to pay more for a lawyer with thatoption so he could request a smaller settlement.It only took him a few minutes to set up his equipment toentangle the veron store where she was running with thenearest dark body, a two hundred million ton snowball a littleunder fifty six million miles away. He had done two otherexperiments with that body, so he already knew it had plentyof active condensate in it. He had to wait to give Ava the halfhour, he used that time to do a little maintenance on the229