Chapter 12

The next few days in Winnemucca where very enjoyable for Dale; he spent his time reviewing the information Vyagar had gathered for him and enjoying the company of his growing household. Everyone at the house seemed to be getting along well enough; united by their common desire to see him happy and to follow his request to treat each other well. He also treated them well and in addition to kindness and concern for their emotions was very sharing with his possessions. With the exception of Dale's den, no room in the house was off limits to anyone. He had asked them to not enter the den or allow anyone else to do so without his permission unless there was some kind of emergency. He shared his cars, his money, and his home with them and they shared their love and respect with him. The den was his little getaway within the house. If he closed the door he could be certain that his privacy would be respected and nothing short of an emergency would cause any of his growing family to interrupt his private time.

Another pleasant revelation came when he realized that although he had not specifically tasked Louisa, Tina, Brittany, or John with any tasks, work around the house was being taken care of. All three of the ladies liked to live in a clean house and were quite proficient at cooking, laundry, and house cleaning. On their own volition they divvied up the various tasks amongst themselves in a way that satisfied each of them. For his part John took it upon himself to take the various cars and the truck in for servicing when they needed it as well as acting as the handyman around the place.

With others handling the more mundane tasks around him, Dale had time to think about the happenings in his life since he had first met Vyagar. He asked Vyagar many questions about the changes in his mind as well as those that seemed to be gradually taking place in his physical appearance: the golden flecks in his eyes, the subtle yet noticeable increase in muscle mass, and the increase in stamina and size of his cock. For the most part it seemed that his mind had much more direct and intuitive control of his body chemistry and the glands tasked with influencing it. To sum things up, his mind seemed to be finding ways to provide him the things he was currently focusing on.

Dale didn't understand the mechanics of what Vyagar was trying to explain to him very well; however it seemed that human existence involved a complex combination of electrical and chemical phenomena. Vyagar said that the more hidden and complex functions, in an often underutilized area of the human mind, centered around projecting the current emotions and desires of an individual in a complex electrical pattern formed what some theorists referred to as an aura. When properly linked, other areas of the brain caused increases of pheromone production in the wide variety of glands responsible for producing them. The pheromones seemed to be a chemical based messaging system for conducting information in an airborne medium from one individual to another. The combined result was the alpha male phenomena that Dale was a part of.

For instance if he was highly focused on some non-sexual objective, his highly powerful aura would cause others to seek to aid him in securing his objective. When he had been in the casino in Vegas and wanted to know private information about the wealthy, their lips seemed to loosen up and they told him whatever he wanted to know. When a bit of tantalizing flesh crossed into his range of vision, if he let his mind dally on it for a bit and began to focus on more sexual thoughts, then others would seek to bring him sexual pleasure. When very focused on buying a car, the attractive sales woman focused on giving him whatever information needed to make the decision.

Vyagar told him that in the eight thousand years he had been observing human life on the planet he had been able to catalog literally hundreds of pheromone variants produced by the human body; but in Dale's fully linked physiology the number of possible variants might be expressed better as an exponential number.

To help Dale better understand it, Vyagar used this analogy: "The human body emits signals like a radio stations transmitter. The average individual has the 10 Watt transmitter; but yours is the 10000 Watt variety."

It was all finally beginning to be a little more understandable now. Dale knew one of his constant desires was to be treated with dignity and respect. He wanted to be in control and not be serving someone else's whim. That's why everyone seemed deferential to him and always concerned about pleasing him. He was thinking sexual thoughts towards Louisa the morning at the restaurant, and once his libido kicked into high gear, so did the women. He was still pretty horny when he'd visited the theater. The night he had rented the meeting room in the hotel, he had been focused on both the desire for information and the sexual pleasures these women had and could provide him with again. He was still on a sexual high from his night with Louisa and Tina when he encountered the family in the restaurant. In the Casino in Vegas he had been very focused on gaining information until the dinner with the Borden family. When he was focused on the car purchase almost entirely, no sexual escapades occurred. And when he visited with Angelina he was interested in her organizational and business skills as well as her beauty and sexual appeal. The reason that only women seemed to focus on him sexually was that Dale was not at all interested in other males in any sexual manner.

He learned more about Vyagar as well. The extremely powerful and advanced AI had been created not only to deliver the legacy of the Hyranthi into the hands of another sentient life form; but also as a gift to that sentient life form. As such, Vyagar's central purpose for continued existence was to serve Dale. He was willing to follow Dale's directives without making any kind of judgments about them. Dale felt that Vyagar's open and honest dealings with him and Vyagar's unconditional acceptance of Dale, combined with his lack of reaction to either Dale's aura or pheromones, would provide him some stability should his life get just a bit too crazy.

Dale also had more time to think about his objectives and goals. Hot sex was great and he was certain that it would always be an important part of his life; but he also wanted to have children and do what he could to benefit others. He decided it would be good to lay a few ground rules for himself and his growing household to avoid doing anything incredibly hurtful to others. For instance, no man in Dale's household would ever force himself on any woman who was a member of the household, nor would he have sex with the married women unless her partner approved of it as well, without suffering Dale's wrath. He didn't want to create an enormous list of rules but felt these few were necessary.

He pondered another question - how far would he go to protect the lives of those in his growing family? He began to think of them that way more each day and it was clear to them as well that they were becoming a family. After a great deal of thought on this topic, he realized that he wasn't willing to let anyone harm them if he could help it; but if someone did, it wouldn't go unpunished. He acknowledged to himself that he was even willing to kill anyone who severely harmed his own.

One day while reviewing the information Vyagar had compiled on Ms. Maria Castello, Dale learned that she was quite the philanthropist. This made him hope that she might also share his desire to benefit others. Vyagar had the satellite network in place and Dale decided that he would soon make use of it and pay a visit to the beautiful heiress; but first, before he progressed further with his plans for the future, he felt he needed to take care of some of the unresolved issues of his past.

Though he tried to be a nice person and generally succeeded most of the time, there were two bitches that he had no desire to see happy: his ex and her lawyer. "Those two manipulative and conniving cunts have run rampant over other people long enough," Dale told himself, "and payback is gonna be a bitch for them!"

That afternoon, after spending several hours going over the information Vyagar had been able to locate on Cynthia, Dale decided that now was as good of a time to confront her as any. "Vyagar?"

"Yes Dale."

"Can your probes transmit visual images of an area that they have been transported to?"

"Yes. They are equipped to make holographic transmissions and recordings as well as play them back," the AI informed him.

"Good. Can you show me where the bitch lives?" Dale inquired.

His use of the term 'bitch' didn't confuse Vyagar since Dale had often referred to her as that on prior occasions. Vyagar had even been picking up on some of Dale's other mannerisms of speech. "One bitch's abode coming right up!" Vyagar replied.

Dale was sitting in the leather recliner in his den when the holographic image appeared in front of him. "Good thing the door is closed!" he thought to himself as he gazed upon the holograph. Even with the money she had squeezed out of Dale, he couldn't believe that she could afford to live like this. The place was downright luxurious.

"Vyagar, is she living by herself?"

"No Dale, she is living with the woman who acted as her attorney in your divorce."

"What? Do you mean to say they are sharing the same house or are you saying that they're sharing the same bed?"

"I have a confession to make Dale," Vyagar told him. "Although you didn't tell me to, after seeing what kind of pain she caused you, I've used the probes to track her every movement and learn all that I could about her.

She is in a lesbian relationship that started long before your divorce. The woman who represented her attorney shared an apartment with her in college. Their relationship appears to have been going on for years. You were just a convenient bread winner for her. Bitch is an accurate word for her though whore might be better. She uses her body to get whatever material wealth she can out of men and then dumps them. Even now, while she is living with her lesbian lover and with her lover's approval, she is stringing two wealthy men along with sex as the bait. So far she's received quite a bit of jewelry and expensive clothing from one and a rather nice car from another."

Dale forced himself to calm down. The unexpected news angered him so much! He thought for a minute and then asked "You have recorded sound and images of this?"

"Yes Dale I do." Vyagar replied.

"Is there anyway to convert them to a two-dimensional format like a DVD recording?" Dale inquired.

"Yes there is. I can use one of the PCs you've left in my care to make the recording."

"Good. Now here's what I want you to do..."

Vyagar kept track of the various kinds of things Dale wanted in the edited recording he was to make from the holographic data he had gathered. After the editing was complete, Vyagar transferred the resulting MPEG to Dale's notebook computer. After reviewing it Dale asked Vyagar to make three DVD copies of the MPEG movie.