Sigh… That old cliché?Oooh, come on man don’t be like that! After all, you can’t go wrong with the classics! Besides considering the situation ...hat the worlds in, it does seem kind of fitting don’t you think?Sigh… I suppose your right, with the current state of the world, it does seem slightly fitting to begin with that old introduction.That’s the spirit! Now you want to go first, or should I?I might as well start this all off. Now let us begin… Once upon a time…There existed a collection of. ”“Thank you,” Joseph said, smiling slightly. He shifted his attention to the Empress, who had entered shortly after Prince Junius and Princess Octavia.“Empress Yana, you are well met,” Joseph said. This time there was real warmth in his smile and Octavia stifled another giggle. She was pleased that the king had seen through her brother’s façade. “Duchess Liala, I bid you welcome to Azkoval and I trust my steward has made your stay comfortable.”“We may converse in Az,” Yana said, also smiling. She should be in my car, singing along, not entirely on-key, with some cheery tune blaring from the radio. She should be sitting sideways on one end of our couch, her long denim-clad legs extended, with her always-cold feet tucked in beneath my leg, doing the crossword puzzle as I sit on the other end reading the sports section. And always, ALWAYS, chewing on the friggin pen&hellip, Christ, how that annoyed me! And I usually told her about it, too. If only we had a do-over&hellip, there are so. The original plan had been to broadly holocast the landings, but that had been scrapped for obvious reasons."I think I have it," said Cromartie in response to Meiersdottir's question. He searched his pockets. "Here," he said, producing it at last."Good," said Meiersdottir. She was currently perhaps the most alert of the crew; she'd been able to spend a good part of the debarkation resting in her cabin while most of others, including MacPherson, had been able to snatch only catnaps between the.