“So, what’s this about John then?” Kyle decided to save her the pain of bringing the subject up. Amber sipped at her drink, looking like she ...as delaying her answer just a little more. “Well,” she paused to put the cup down, “I was just wondering if he’d said anything about me? Maybe said I’d done anything wrong?” Kyle shrugged and shook his head. “It’s just that he seems to be… well, like he doesn’t care for me too much anymore. He says he does, but he doesn’t call and, you know,. "Frank", she handed him the phone, "It's Gary at the Kings Head"Turning to me she said, "I think you should round your boys up Paul, somebody's just fire bombed the kings Head!"The fire was out when we arrived and Thank God, no one had been hurt, two brews of firemen were packing their gear away and the station officer was talking to a police officer who was obviously in charge now that the fire was out.The officer saw us approaching and grimaced at Frank,"Well, well, well, Mr Charlton, what a. " What about SPD1? Any word on what's happing over there?" Ian asked as they walked to one of the transport tubes."I know Commodore Thompson, his wife and fifty of our highest ranking officers are dead including Captain Takia Tanaka, his wife and the executive officer of the Yamato. Scanners detected the explosion on the far side of Kuiper belt right after she folded away from the dock, the size of the detonation suggest it was a scuttling charge that blew." Damn it, why would she do that?" Ian. This was not as auspicious a first meeting with some of my new hands as I might have hoped for."Lord preserve me! What were you boys thinking with to try sneaking up on a fella like that? I'm glad that I was able to stop myself in time from blowing all of your fool heads right off." Skittish ain't ya?" This was from the taller of the four. He looked about my height, but skinnier than me, and he had hair down past his shoulders. He was about my age at that time, twenty one or so."Don't tell me.