Moments before I'd been sure she was going to turn me down but now she was going over the whole thing so deliberately. Did she enjoy drawing out a ref...sal? I couldn't tell what she was up to. "Yes," I said, immediately chagrinned that my word was little more than a mumble."You don't need us." I stared. I didn't understand why she repeated the point. "But you very much want us."I certainly did. It was perfect, I just knew my advisor would approve and things would go smoothly. She still said. “We could, but better we give them some chance than none at all. Plus, some of the gang members are not bad individual fighters,” Kirim replied.“I’m not sure about passing on so many weapons into the lower levels...” Justiciar Bonsarr frowned.“They have a good few anyway and it will show the Empire trusts them,” David shrugged.“Yes, morale,” Orliantomina Honack nodded. “Plus, a lot of the weapons will end up in the median and upper levels too.”“The AIs can advise them on making strongpoints, as. Jayne hopes that seeing Tanya was a figment of her imagination but as she opens her eyes there is Tanya in the same position.Jayne is willing her hand to undo the straps but after just about managing to remove it from the now loosen strap she seems unable to co-ordinate it to undo the rest. Tanya then steps forward and starts to gently realise the straps on Jayne’s leg and waist, frees her left hand and finally removes the ball gag from her mouth.Without a word said she helps Jayne out of the. He continued on to Mrs Beale's house to visit Madeleine. He did feel guilty, but his love for Madeleine was undiminished. He would have to work especially hard to prove himself worthy of her.Dee and Mrs Beale were talking quietly in the front room. Everyone else was gathered around the kitchen table, peeling vegetables and chatting. They welcomed him in, offering him a chair and a drink, and didn't comment on his lateness.For the first time, he talked of the strangeness of village life to the.