.. But ... I can talk to my master. Excuse me.”Carsina darted from Ava and rushed across her workroom. She barreled through the door, her boots smac...ing on the stones. They dwindled into the distance. I drew in a deep breath, touching the amulet between my breasts.The phylactery.I still couldn’t believe the Biomancer Vebrin’s dark soul lay in such a beautiful stone. It didn’t feel cursed or profaned by such evil. It felt so normal. I was so used to wearing it, I often forgot I had it. And then. ‘So what’s the pain you’re trying to drink away?’ ‘I’m celebrating.’ Jane said. ‘I just signed the divorce papers.’ She didn’t know why she pulled the papers out of her bag and showed them to this strange woman. ‘So...’ Jane shrugged. ‘O dear.’ Angel said. She put her hand on Jane’s thigh and slowly stroke up and down as if she was trying to sooth Jane. ‘So now what?’ She asked. ‘What’s next for this little lady?’ Jane lifted her glass of beer. ‘This.’ She said. Angel started. But I asked the AI to relay the conversation, and it was eye-opening. There was an AI interface kit under the passenger seat; I had Oliver get it out. "You need to hear this," I told him. Once he was rigged up with a headset, I had the AI relay the conversation from the beginning, speeding things up just a hair so we could get to real time eventually.Oliver sat in his seat like a statue, absorbing his sometime wife and first concubine's tale. I didn't blame him; he'd been duped and lied to for. If they thought he was besotted with Prue, he seemed equally smitten with Nianna. Tah was a very content man. He rarely slept in his room. He spent as much time with Prue as he could. He wasn’t looking forward to the trip ending.Tah and Raghu were in the lab and the others in the sitting room, one day in the fifth week of travel. “Hey Tah,” said Raghu. “We have spent a lot of time on ships lately. Do you ever remember a passage as smooth as this one?”Tah was feeding Nianna. He looked up and.