See if he could turn her on

In the sex games Rick played, the player would say the right thing and the woman's score would go up (or down). Which had never worked for him in real life because he couldn't see the score. Now, though, thanks to the bio-DNA enhancement, he thought he could do it.

Of course in those games, there were always just a couple of choices all spelled out. No such luck here. Still, what did he care if he screwed up. It wasn't like this woman was going to help him anyway.

He figured he had two basic options: First, he could go sexy. Second, he could try the friend route.

The friend route had never worked well for Rick. Sure he'd ended up with some girls as friends, but it always seemed like they thought of him as another girlfriend rather than someone to have wild and passionate sex with. On the other hand, just propositioning a woman without any sort of warmup had never worked for him either. But he resolved that he was going to try one. He reminded himself that failure wasn't really a failure. He was going to watch her with his enhanced senses and see what he could learn.

"So," he said, "I'm wondering..."