I carefully hung my suit and made sure that I had enough laundered and starched white shirts. I also checked to see if my shoes were properly shined. ...y God it was only Saturday!I awoke at 5:00 am Monday morning. I had spent half the night glancing at the alarm every few minutes. Nervously, I showered and tried to eat a light breakfast. As I sipped my coffee, I tried to compose myself."Andrew what is the worst that could happen. You could be sent home rejected. Maybe I should not show up. Maybe. ”For the first time since stepping into the office Danyelle smiles and says, “Me, too.”“This isn’t a restaurant,” Danyelle complains as they pull up in front of a bar and grill.“It is, too, Dani,” Beatrix says smartly, putting the car into park. “Well, it’s not one of our usual haunts, but I’m sure the food is hot.”“Is this why you cancelled the driver, so that we could sneak off to some bullshit hole-in-the-wall joint?” the girl argues.“Get off your high horse,” Beatrix says with a frown,. Who knew how long it would take the riders in the back to see the danger and turn away? Right into the caltrops.As I was leaving, he reminded me about working with the commanders in his other cities. I promised that I would. First, I wanted to talk to King Daniel.A week later, I was hurried in to meet privately with King Daniel. He gushed about how easy it had been to defeat two tumens (twenty thousand) of the Mongol soldiers. I warned him that they would return this winter, but he was. We were both in fairly good shape although the altitude did slow us a little as I have said. Still we were able to make it with only a couple of short stops. As we entered the canyon mouth, the shape changed. Below had been a more smoothly carved valley left by a glacier which had also carved out the lake and deposited that moraine we had climbed. However, inside the canyon the valley changed to a more sharply sloped "V" shape, typical of a canyon carved by a river. There was indeed a stream.