"He looked at me and I nodded. "This is being handled by Mr. Devonshireso I will defer to him." Right." Will began, "Miss Broughton and I have both ma...e our statementsto Chief Superintendent Stone's officers and so, I believe, have Doctorand Mrs Williams. I cannot speak for the other witnesses on boardPacific Wanderer at the time of the action so I think it best at thisstage if I ask him to present us with an update."I left the meeting after we had gone into the details of the court caseand. Another chore he detested. Standing under the hot spray in his cramped flat, he looked at his burgeoning bruise. It was starting to look impressive. There was something fascinating about how the black, purple, yellow and tinges of red intermixed.He was going to have to consider another line of work. That was the third time this week he had been stoned by kids. It would not be too bad but it was only Tuesday. It was not even the marching season. That was something else to look forward too.Carl. It was my opportunity to get a feel from Whitney where this might go. He watched her walk back to the bathroom and said "You are a luck man, son. That is one beautiful woman you have there." I thanked him and told him "She thinks you are quite a gentleman too." He looked at me and gave me a big smile.He was playing right along. He said "it has been a long time since I held a beautiful woman in my arms." I smiled back and said "this could be your lucky night." My wife returned and I gave her a. I can’t even detect the ring,” Morgana added. “Now let us see what we shall see.”Two guards led the way toting their plastic coated assault rifles along with their thin silk gloves. The rifles themselves had been modified by the Council to remove virtually all steel outer parts, but the Fae could still be affected by magnetism so the gloves were used to minimise that effect even further even though we’d de-gaussed the innards as well as supplying them with caseless ammo.We Mages had meanwhile.