" Maybe?" You do realize that these are the regionals? What happens to skatersthat make the cut?" The Nationals!" I said suddenly."Right. The National.... And when are they staged? February? That's along time after school starts, right? Personally, I have serious doubtsthat you can spend three or four months as a girl, quit for a fewmonths, and start up again, only then to quit yet again? Somehow, thatjust does not seem possible, or even very likely. If you win here, anddo move to the Nationals,. With my bad arm in a light sling. We stood at the entrance to the large hall of the Leader of the Hunt’s baronial mansion. It was scene from a film depicting Scottish life. Everyone stood, drinking a variety of drinks and a waitress, dressed like a Scot’s maid, passed through the throng of perhaps sixty people with a tray of glasses. We each accepted one. The bagpipe screamed the welcome to the haggis when we had finished a bowl of soup. Increasingly relaxed by alcohol, the guests applauded. Getting Devin and Deborah to plant the idea of recruiting me will not be a waste. It will make it easier to extract information from anybody else if we need to chemically interrogate someone else.I can’t do the DNA trick again. The lacrosse team being gay can be dismissed as a fluke. If I were to do that to the basketball team, people would ask questions and start looking into it. Granted, nobody would know what they were looking at even if I showed them what I did.I come up with a quick and. But it has been an honor meeting and working with you, and I hope to see you again in the future. I do go to the US once a year or so, so we will not be complete strangers after this.”He stood and we bowed to each other, then he pulled me in and gave me a big hug. I hugged him back, and said the honor was all mine. “And Riku, thank you for everything. You taught me a lot also in the last year. I hope I see you again every so often.”At 5 we all went through the convention, warning people we were.