"She beat us home by a week." Nothing you can do about it now." Nimrod says in sympathy. "She did have important news, even with all the finger pointi...g."His face takes on a grim cast as he thinks about Catherine new's of new visitors in an old place of pain."Napoleon is working on it, right?" I ask about the Leader of the Protectors."He has no choice." Saul flashes us a wicked grin. I guess Nimrod filled him in on how much Napoleon was harassing me. He didn't like the fact that I was both. “Chase anything in a skirt,” she laughed, “Except possibly a Scotchman in a kilt.”“I say, I have conducted myself with the utmost decorum,” he replied.“Utmost decorum, Mother says there is hardly a whore in Notting Hill you haven’t upended,” she challenged.“Please change the subject, this is not a suitable topic for polite conversation,” Charles advised.“You don’t have notions of dragging me into the shed, baring my parts, tearing my clothes asunder and mounting me then?” she. “We need to talk, look I heard you talking to Potter. Is that really how you feel?”“It is I do like you, but you have always been so mean to my friends. It worries me and a lot of it is I don’t want them to find out.”“They won’t not unless you tell them.” he said moving closer to her. “If you can do as I say and submit to me fully and peacefully i will be nicer.” “I think I can make that deal just don’t take this to far and don’t fuck with me in the library that place is safe, this is all so. “So are the rumors true?”“What rumors?”“You and the General?”“I had no idea there were rumors about that.”“As big as this ship is, it’s a closed community and there are eyes and ears everywhere. You know that.”“I have no idea what the rumors say but yes something might happen, not that I have any plans but she is a woman and I could be twice as old and not figure them out. Now I suggest you get this ship landed.”Stahl left the bridge while Harris prepared the Devi for planet fall. It did not.