She was the oldest person in the office by (reportedly) a decade or so; he was the youngest by at least five years."Thanks, Kristen. I'm fine, no worr...es." He gave her a slightly disingenuous smile, feeling the minutes slip past, and knowing he'd have to rush to beat the traffic. Martin checked the message light on the phone again, just in case he'd missed a ring or something."You look pretty worried to me," she said, stepping into the doorway. "Anything I can do?" Are you gonna be here for a. They will do whatever you ask them to do, whenever you ask them to do it. They have no control over themselves when they look into those big blue eyes.’ ‘Why don’t I have that effect on you Harold? How can you control yourself around me?’ ‘I will use Alan’s words. ‘ It’s so simple the answer is easier than the question.’ Baby, I wear contacts.” Callie laughed. ‘You are so full of shit your eyes are brown.’ Harold laughed at her. ‘Actually my eyes are a very light green. I didn’t like the color,. Ms Veronica sat beside me,Mr. Daniels just two seats down, and the new Lady, what was her name?what was her name? Yes Mistress Ki. She sat to my right. Mistress C wasat the far end.It was coming back to me now. We were having a light hearted dinner, talkof memories, and of my continuing ability to Escape long termenslavement. Thinking back I could feel the somewhat evil grin thatresonated from the new Lady, Mistress Ki, and how is seemed to bemirrored by each of the Ladies each time they made. By the time the horns in the distance had gone silent, the pair had made it to the center wall section. this should, they hoped, give them access to the inner courtyard and the Emperor. Rather than being an open courtyard though, they found it mostly enclosed and covered over. This was not a courtyard they quickly discovered, but the entry way to the citadel itself. With the rope they had brought along, they lowered themselves to the floor as far from the center as they could get, then pulled.