She refused to take any money for watching the kids, but I made sure to take care of any maintenance that was needed around her home as compensation e...en though she always insisted it was not necessary."It's just grand to see your home and well, Tom." Juliet said with a big smile on her face. "You did good, Tom. You did very good. Why, the whole neighborhood is talking about what a big hero you are." I'm not a hero. I'm..." I started to argue."Now don't you go playing down what you did to me. There was a visible bar or what appeared to be gold thread across the shoulder pads. On his head was a rather elaborate hat that would have looked perfect in a movie about Horatio Nelson. He looked commanding while at the same time I had to fight not to laugh at the absurdity of the hat in space.“You!” he shouted. “Where is the salute for a senior officer?”“I was not aware you had been promoted over me, ” I said. “From what the AI has said the captain of a corvette is normally an O-2 when they. The house was trashed and there were bullet holes everywhere, evidence that a prolonged gunfight took place, matching what some of the neighbors heard and saw shortly before we got home that night. There were blood smears indicating multiple bodies were removed from the house which led MI5 to believe that Hestia and our security people did not go alone. None of the blood seemed to belong to Lady Ancen or Grandmother and the small smear they found that they think is William's blood was thought. "Productive, but it was early morning before we made it back." What did you find?" I asked."That this entire county, it seems, cooks moonshine," he said."I could be a tellin' ya that," Pap cackled."Could you tell us where all the stills are Pap?" He asked."Those are close secrets. Men don't even be a sharin' that with their mates." I know where they are." No one knows where they all are." I know where all the ones are from here, West, for twenty-five miles," he retorted."How?" Was the question.