Untrue Tales... Book Four

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In which Toni explains how their centuries of arbitration resulted in Trevor's exile to Earth, then they reach their rendezvous with Pretana, head of the guild, whose petulance and power create a new challenge for Trevor to overcome, and he comes up with an equally challenging solution.

In which Sam and Bresk show Toni and Trevor the basics of the Di-Chroma harvesting operation, then the class one AIs make Trevor and Toni's life worse while making the lives of everyone else in the universe better, and Bresk's inability to love Sam dooms Toni and Trevor to centuries of meaningless arbitration.

In which Trevor enjoys a terrible, nearly-inedible meal with the citizens of 77 Di-Krustos, learns that making love with Toni has exposed an unwitting citizen to a dangerous thought crime, and then he and Toni are shown to the Di-Chroma fields by Sam and Bresk.

In which Trevor reconnects with class one AI after over a hundred years of being turned away, shares some intimate experiences with them, then arrives at 77 Di-Krustos, another class five colony in need of assistance.

In which Trevor assists Bill with filling out paperwork and ends up accidentally creating a new class of artificial intelligence in the process.

In which Trevor and Toni learn about the work and the local culture of Waterstone Five, and offer to try to assist them with some of the paperwork standing between them and a better quality of life.

In which Trevor and Toni meet the people of Waterstone Five, a class five corporate colony, get a tour of their unusual amenities, and learn about their day to day work.

In which Trevor learns how to access the universe's knowledge from any terminal, Toni picks a few planets to visit first, and Toni talks about their first impressions of the universe-spanning corporation and its planet-spanning bureaucracies.

In which Trevor and Toni attempt to visit a museum, and find that even such a simple experience is marred by the bureaucracy of the corporation, then purchase a space ship and set out into the universe.

In which Trevor, Toni, their daughter, and Nirgal briefly meet the captain of the ship which abducted them from Earth, then Toni begins to tell the story of how she and Trevor first began to explore the universe.