A few days later, back in Johannesburg, I coordinated with Lerato and Tokelo to meet them in about two weeks. I had to go to Italy for some meetings, but I had the company plane to service in Palermo. I would be back the day before the designated date, which would have seen us together from Wednesday to Sunday. Or so I thought. Our pilot, Sipho, flew us into Catania-Fontanarossa Airport in Sicily along with Rebecca as the...

The next day was all work, and Lerato was good at that too. She was all professional in her ranger uniform, and she was deeply knowledgeable about the drones and the experiments we were doing to train the AI in the field. It was a completely new approach, but she got it immediately and made some really good contributions towards creating the data set for phase one of the training. My PhD student, Isaac, was along. He was...

Lying on the bed next to Lerato, and feeling so great from meeting such an amazing woman and finding such a perfect sexual connection, I messaged Tokelo. I had never met Tokelo in person, but she found me through my stories on Lush, and we had been chatting and talking for a few months. “Hey Tokelo,” I wrote on WhatsApp. “I hope you are having a nice evening. How is your special toy doing?” “Haha,” she wrote. “I am okay,...