” It was Cynthia coming back into the living room just in time. She had put on a red negligee that was hard to ignore, and both men turned their att...ntion towards her. “Of course, dear. What’ll you have? A beer?” Murray had calmed down instantly and was playing the perfect, obsequious host. “I’ve got a Corona. Any good?” “Thank you. That’d be great.” “Sorry about his temper,” Cynthia whispered to Greg as her husband lumbered off to the kitchen. “Would you do me a little favor?” she went on. “Of. WEUSALL are rechecking everyone to ensure that this does not happen again without you or WEUSALL allowing it.Kairi thought the question ‘WHO is WEUSALL, what are you all doing, please tell me what you want from me’Everyone heard her and looked to me.I instructed WEUSALL to introduce themselves to everyone and tell their story, then I would tell my story and how the others came to join WEUSALL and me.WEUSALL have been for longer than can be understood. Our world was destroyed by one of the three. As head of security I simply pulled up a chair at the table and listened to the sob story that was being dumped on everyone. With no heat and no place to put the students and frozen pipes coming, there were long faces all around the table. They were trying to find one generator to do it all. I asked how much electrical load was on each of the dorms. I knew from accounting and walking the grounds that we had our own meters on each of the dorms and the cafeteria.The head of the buildings looked. 'May they hang me if I’m not', were your exact words.”“Yes, yes, my lord,” Wallace replied nervously, his stammer worsening, “I have sent my errand boy riding out to another farm to seek a young woman named Hope. I pray to all the gods that this time we shall be successful.”Wallace looked rather sheepish, knowing he had overstated the certainty in his ability to secure a young woman for the great Lord for the night. He squeezed behind his wife to pass her, pulling the shoulder straps of Esme’s.