Damned "Infernal Revenue Stealers", anyway! Infernal. I liked that. Seemed devilish. Just the way the governments, all of them, want your money.I went...from having the few paltry million I had managed to make off my coins, to having well over sixty million in the bank! Well, on paper anyway. It is amazing how much money you can make in a hundred years, if you don't touch it, and if it had been invested correctly!I was tempted to move to a state that did not have a state income tax. I could keep. So did the age when I told him how long ago they lived. He’d thought his time jump was a big one, and of course it was, but he found millions of years to be incomprehensible.When we got to the prehistoric man section, which I thought he’d find even more fascinating, he was just ... bemused. He admired some of the flint work, but most of the rest only puzzled him. They had a big display showing a few beetle-browed mannequins clustered around a fire inside a cave, and all he could do was shake. ”“Problem?” Ryan asked.“Just ... a call I need to return,” I said. “How’s the knee feeling?”“Better,” he said. The infection he’d picked up after surgery had receded and he was back to working out with us. But he was also walking with a cane again. “Is there anything I need to know before I get changed and meet with Liz?”“I don’t think so,” I said. “Clayton Boudreau is starting on the first. He’s going to live here and probably move in this weekend. Veronica Park is already working here. You’ll. It thrashed and clawed and jerked and sir Nelson was suddenly yanking me up and away. I left the knife but my sword came out and I caught my balance, “thanks.”He was watching the demon and then relaxed, “you did good lad.”The demon’s spasms slowed and finally it lay still. I shook my head, “we burn it?”He nodded and turned to gesture to the soldiers, “leave the knife.”I snorted, “only until we start the fire. The blade is star silver.”He looked at me and then grinned, “smart.”The soldiers.