Claire gave Lisa some pointers on her coffee game, and we had anice enough wait, but you could feel some tension in the air.A few minutes later, anoth...r assistant stepped into the room to whisperto Lisa, and she disappeared briefly only to return with a slightlyolder man who soon indeed turned out to be Roger Stockton. I looked himover as he entered the room. Picture a kindly looking Santa clause likefigure, but one whose normally bright features were weighed down by theweight of the entire. They had sat there for hours talking of religion and philosophy. He had taken her in more than any man that had ever spoken to her before. The water began to get cold and her eyes opened and she pulled herself from the tub and stood up and grabbed the towel that hung from the porcelain hook on the wall. She dried off her body and looked about the lonely bathroom and sighed. Why had he left her there her mind so unsatisfied? Walking back into her bedroom she dressed herself simply as usual in. "Sure," she said, more to be polite than for any real craving to see plants. The front yard had been beautiful, but she didn't think she'd ever sit and contemplate it like art.He led her through French doors in the glass wall of the library, to a patio that curved off to the right and became the deck of a swimming pool. The blue water looked good as the warmth of the sun soaked into her body. There were flowers, bushes and trees everywhere and she followed him as he pointed out various plants. "I still have need of Jimison, I have that damnable Duke who escaped. We still have a major Creagon queen out there, the Delcrons might declare war if this isn't handled right. We have over hour hundred ninety ships out there that need to be found and re-gened, that we know where they actually are. Then, there is your compatriots, Kimison and Rayburn, if they don't kill themselves I just might." Here Derrick slightly bowed his head, "then there is the matter of your joining. THAT, I will not.