He would stop this terrorist threat once and for all. But beyond that, Keith had hooked him with the connection between the Guardians and the typesett...rs’ guild. How deep did that connection go?Fry’s initiation had been little more than learning the pattern of an elaborate dance and the chanted instructions that went with it. To his knowledge, that information was not written down anyplace. His father’s Kurdish tribe passed the information from generation to generation through the coming of age. ’Kat ruminated, “I’d love to talk to some of the more established girls, you know like find a mentor in this business. Some days I think we’re just lumping along. It’d be nice to know that we’re really doing the right things for our business and for ourselves.”Jerry had overheard part of their conversation. He turned, “I can arrange that for you. I know a few of the girls here in town from prior trips. I’m sure they’d let me arrange for you to meet. They might even feel the same way you do.”Kat. Mountserrat has no planet wide coms." Commodore, it slipped mine as well. And before you ask, yes I can re-establish a simple net and can put in a com network as well. It will be primitive and a bit like the party line facilities of yore. I'll have a plan for you to discuss when you return." My ETA "Vector" is thirty five minutes, Henry." Not a problem, Commodore. I'll have it." Good. McCock clear."Sir Henry was as good as his word. He was waiting for McCock in the Admiral's conference. I let the shaft linger and sink, slowly subsumed, squeezed from all sides. I wondered if she would take it that way, perhaps tell Hester later, send news back home, the ultimate revelation. An unappealable nail for a marital coffin.But she twisted from me when I began my final approach back there. And so I fucked her in the usual way, propped on one arm with my free hand at her throat, her eyes daring me to finish. I was determined to give her something to remember, fucked her with punitive.