"Golly, Veronica! How can I ever apologise enough for all the bother I've caused you? When I saw your last film and was told I could play opposite you...in this, I was so excited! I only left drama school a few months ago and this could be the launching pad of my career! How can I ever make it up to you?"Veronica, the memory of her darling Douglass fading ever more into the distance, could think of any number of ways that he could make it up to her! She was a blond herself and the sight of this. They’d been wandering the Anchorage marketplace, looking for deals and generally keeping an eye on their Raiders. The King was charged a fine for every man who broke the town’s peace. This being his first season, Kort was fanatical about earning a good reputation. So they patrolled, with John’s ‘convict’ squad doing the dirty work of snatching drunk or belligerent Raiders and hustling them off to the ships.“How is it that you do not know how warm it is?” The King stared at John.John grinned. “I. We spent a lot of time wargaming how we might sneak in and out of Tantalus’ orbit, how we might react to Sa’arm activity that might pose a threat to us, and what our GO/NO GO criteria would be on entering orbit, or remaining in orbit. When would we bail out if things looked too dangerous? How would we do that without increasing the danger to us? How much could we depend on stealth when we really didn’t have a solid idea on how effective it was?The contingency list was longer for this mission. They were ideas made manifest, floating in the void like holograms. Besides all the options for what kind of monster I want to be, the holograms also have information about the world I will be living in, including my archenemies and even a little trivia. Neat.Apparently, the light was domineering pretty hard, not that that’s any surprise with how overpowered the hero and her party are… regarding gods, there was a whole light pantheon, with Carnachias and Melanoche being the only dark gods,.