Sort of "I do not like thee, Dr. Fell; the reason why, I cannot tell..." Usually a few people out of each score I meet will strike me one way or the o...her. But here I have immediately felt a great bond with each of the staff members and to a slightly lesser extent with most of the workers. And, more strangely, not one person I have met has "rubbed me the wrong way." Perhaps this is because we all - at least the Westerners - seem to be kindred spirits. (The thought just struck me that several of. .? what you doing here…? where you are staying…? etc, i told everything as i got transfer over here, and working here since a month, then he told me to meet today and we decided a place, evening i went to a place where we were decided, then he came in car, we hugged and talked a usual things about health and etc, he asked about my staying and i told i am staying in a flat, then he asked if i was married or not, i said no as i wasn’t, then i asked the same question to him, he said he got married. (Now please remember that this as MANY years ago, before there was a big issue with background checks and security clearances and making sure that Santa wasn’t a pervert who had more than a lump of coal making a bulge in his pants when little Susie sat in his lap. The system was by personal word of mouth and referrals.)Allow me a moment to describe my wife, Louisa. She stood a willowy 5’8” tall and had the lovely dark complexion of a person who had grown up in the Caribbean. Some of her family. Stepping out of the cold black corridor should have been a relief, but for some reason, Ember was feeling more and more uneasy by the moments.Craven’s hands shook as she walked. “I-I’ll have you know, I’m just a thaumatech. I don’t ... I don’t make any of the decisions, I just ... work the machines.”“That’s not a great way for us to begin our relationship,” Ceaith growled, her claws springing out of her fingertips. “What the fuck are you people doing here?”Craven ducked her head forward as they.