Grendel picked up the Go stones and began to play.<strong>"You have a very lovely and unique avatar, Era.  I find it <em>enticing."</em></strong>Grendel said conversationally.  She wasn't quite sure if she was trying to get psychological leverage on the AI to win the game, if that was even the right phrase, or if it was the truth.  Maybe it was the mind she could not read.  Mystery was the greatest aphrodisiac, Grendel had found.