96 Souls Page #4

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Yes.

I'll lock up.

See you at dinner.

Damn.

All right, there's got to

be a better way than this.

Oh, hey, ram.

Something came up.

Melanie can't make it.

Everything ok?

Well, we're working

some things out.

I've been staying

at my mom's house.

No, no, I meant your eyes.

You're rubbing them.

Is it the same

sensation as earlier?

Probably a latent effect.

Something came up with

my dinner date as well.

She brought a friend.

How long have you been with

the university, Dr. Sutree?

Sorry.

Over a decade.

And ram tells me that your lab

is involved with world health.

Yes, practically every

university research group

is trying to eradicate the

spread of malaria and dengue.

Studying the odors

our bodies give off

could be a way to help do that.

Mosquitoes seem to be

attracted to these odors.

Wouldn't improving

the infrastructure

so that cleanliness wasn't

an issue keep them away?

It's more complicated than that.

Our bodies also

give off natural pheromones,

regardless of our cleanliness.

Sounds like there is more

to attraction than just

wearing aftershave or perfume.

Oh, I daresay pheromone

detection would even

be able to tell when

a woman is ovulating.

Dr. Sutree, has your department

tapped into the data mining

modules that Brenda's

group has developed?

Not that I'm aware of.

John is an amazing programmer.

He's been assisting me on

the voice-pert project.

The goal is for workers

throughout the state health

care system to be able

to instantaneously search

any database via

voice recognition.

She's just impressed because I'm

really sensitive to

semicolons and parentheses.

So John, will you be

staying and ordering

food or just having a drink?

Yeah.

I haven't eaten.

I only ask because when I

invited Brenda to dinner,

I didn't know that an expert

in parentheses and semicolons

would be joining us.

Oh, I apologize, ram.

I just thought it would be good

for John to meet Dr. Sutree.

We'll take care of our part.

No problem, dude.

I can cover myself.

How about some oyster shooters?

Yeah.

We're doing studies on

parasites that cannot survive

without their host or hostess.

Cool.

Did I miss

something, Dr. Sutree?

Oh, I was just

thinking, it's a bold man

who first ate an oyster.

Tell me about it.

Well, that was one of the

most interesting dinners

I've ever had.

Do you think I have a

chance with Brenda, Jack?

Ram, there's a

western expression

that associates

potential romance

with an ocean of sea life.

You may want to

swim yourself over

to a different

section of the sea.

This pair seems a bit small, ma.

I've always been a size 7.

I guarantee you not

one part of my body

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