When I turned to look, Riif had a shit-eating grin on her face. “Ramina taught me,” she explained, grinning.When I started getting nothing but pre...iously answered questions, I called a halt to the news conference and we all escaped inside the Phaunos, inviting the five leaders.Once we caught our breath and had a stiff drink (I learned early on that Karkallians loved a good aged whiskey), the Prime Minister presented me with a declaration allowing me to marry any single female age fourteen and a. Maybe she knew how he could get out of the control of the Brotherhood. He needed to learn all she knew.Cherubim stared at him from beneath a simple face that was most certainly another disguise.”Some of my immortal friends, chief among them the Narth Supreme put their hope and trust in a simple boy from a cold planet, I don’t.”She fell silent as she pointed the nose of the fast flier downward pointing it to a single mountain, most likely an old volcano sticking out of the surrounding forest. ’ Still looking a little pale, but her color is starting to come back now, I was worried she was sick or something, I think to myself, with a big grin on my face with a soft voice, ‘sure take you time, no rush, we have all night, just knock in my door when you’re ready to leave, okay.’ As soon as I finish, she slammed the door in my face, I hope she’s not mad at me, for something that I did. 22. I look at my watch, it’s almost 2230. She was really pale, I hope she’s okay, I say to myself, as. "I lay there and closed my eyes, and must have fallen backasleep. Because it seemed only like minutes before I wasbeing wheeled back to my room. Jamie was sitting there, allsmiles. After they got me into bed, she sat down, held myhand, and said, "Hi there. They told me everything went asplanned, and they would be in to talk to us soon. I broughtyou a pad of paper and pencil, so that you could writemessages. I also called Mom and told her that everythingwent fine." I took the paper and wrote, "I.