All characters and step-daughters are 20+ years old.

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Autocloset Technician is a good career if you don't mind being on call at all hours. If a user is in the arms of the medical robots, disassembled, guts hanging like sausages in metal claws, the company needs to get an engineer dispatched ASAP, 24/7.

But the money makes up for it. And there are other perks. You see a lot of dirty secrets.

This girl gives me the usual shpiel. Step-father was in the machine, locked himself out of his account. Called for repair. Now the man is conspicuously absent from the apartment. He had to attend to some "important something or other", she stammers.

I check the closet's Log, back up the files onto a USB stick, and dangle it in front of her eyes. She knows I know. Her male response is to try to snatch the stick. Her girlish arms fail.

"How long do we have the apartment to ourselves?" I ask.

She gulps. "My wife's flight lands in an hour."

I smile. "Go slip into something we can both enjoy and perhaps I'll not tell her what her husband has been doing with her daughter's template."