It will take us a day and a half to get where we are going.”“Great,” Erica said.The trip had taken them two full days since Mike gave Erica plen...y of opportunities to rest along the way. She didn’t complain, but he could tell that she was feeling weak. He assumed that her weakness was a consequence of her time as a captive. Feeling weak and tired didn’t keep her from sexually teasing him almost the entire trip.Mike could smell the tannery long before they entered town. Seeing the look of. The prancing mantra kept repeating in hishead, though it was slowly being drowned out by relief that the exercisewas now over. On the display in front of him he could see a messagesaying "PRANCING ROUTINE ONE COMPLETE." CALCULATING PARTICIPANT PERFORMANCE SCORE. PLEASE WAIT..."Wait, he was being graded on how he did? The revelation completelydestroyed any relief Grant felt from finishing the lesson. He tried tothink back to when he was doing the exercise, hoping that he didn't maketoo many. “No,” Queen Tinia said, shaking her head. “You are not going. I just got you back.” She cupped his face. “You need time to recover from the tender care of Throwia’s company.”“I am as strong as I will be, Mother,” he told her, pulling her hands gently from his face. “This is something I must do.”“Why?” Tears brimmed in her eyes. I agreed. This made no sense to me, but I didn’t want to interfere. This was between my half-sister and her son. “Why do you have to go?”“Because our clan of faeries. “I am aware of your primitive bureaucracy and since I am unable to obtain a Transform Canon, I ordered a maintenance manual. It should give our engineering thralls enough clues to figure out how they work.”Swybar hit the Kermac so fast and so hard that he was thrown to the floor.” You idiot. You ruined everything. You could have had a ship load of secrets, more than every Kermac spy ever dreamed of taking home, but you were not satisfied. We are lucky to make it off this planet alive.”He turned.