Clint Margoa was 44, he was  bald- except for the brown fringes over his ears, he spent the day being angry at the world and   feeling a failure. His work as a gym coach was making the class do stretches and dividing them into teams and making them play baseball. Why baseball? Because three of the seven trustees of the school had been semi-professional players in their day; plus Clint had played a lot of baseball  in junior high. That was before he discovered robotics and cybernetics.

Clint was one of six humans ever to have post graduation in Advanced Robotics and Quantum computing. He was among the youngest scientist at CERN at the age of 29. He had married a fellow scientist, Mara Olieve. And the three years  that he was normally married were his happiest. Then Mara suffered a stroke, she could not move her arms and legs or even speak . Mara chose medically assisted death after 5 months in hospital supported by machines. By that time Clint had become dependent on heroin and crack, to deal with the stress and grief. It was his bother - in - law, Stepan Olieve, the famous Robotist, who had forced him into rehab in remote Canada. Clint had returned home alone and depressed after 9 years. It was to save his sanity that he had taken up the first job offered to him- a gym coach.

Today he got called home by the delivery guys. He had received an obscene number of packages which if he did not take delivery, he would have to collect it from the company warehouse 110 miles away. The boxes filled his living room stacked three high in many places. Stepan had died in an accident and according to his will - his lab tools, computers, ongoing projects and notes were to be given to Clint. Additionally he had recieved 1,806,090 Euros also. Stepan had no other estate.