’ ‘I’m just the maintenance man, I won’t be in charge of you Consuela.’ ‘I saw how the Ladies were looking at you sir, you are to be the m...ster here.’ ‘You’re imagining things Consuela, they were just thanking me for helping them. Please call me Ken, I would like to be your friend while we are both working here.’ The Latin girl immediately got hot, ‘You think that because I have a baby and no husband that you can have your way with me? I don’t need that kind of friend Mr. Jacobs.’ ‘No, no. If I have the years figured out from your knowledge of history, that was nearly 3200 years ago.’ ‘Holy fucking shit. You’ve been imprisoned a long time!’ Doris said, her mind reeling at the thought of being anywhere for 3 millennia. ‘It may as well have been the day before yesterday. It was like falling asleep and suddenly waking up when you opened my vessel.’ ‘You’re pretty hot for your age,’ Doris giggled. ‘Thank you, Doris,’ Genie said as her skin flushed red. ‘Genie, could you…could. What else would a sane person have expected from the budget-priced brain I'd been given? Though in truth I must admit, that even the premium top models of my day would have been sorely strained to deal with all that was impacting on me at that moment.If Erick had just waited, I would have eventually told him that his command had been either accepted, or rejected, and why. But he didn't. While he is obviously a genius in his knowledge of 'bot minds, he has his blind spots, which proved very. .. but at least, I’ve got it for later if there are more of them.”“Huh ... okay. Yeah, there might be more of them. Look.”Voss pulled back the hood on one of the dead and/or dying strangers, revealing the orange-tinted skin, pointed ears and snoutlike nose of a hobgoblin.“Whoever they are, they’re paying for hobgoblin enforcers. That’s not cheap.”I rubbed my chin in thought. “And it’s not one of the established Thieves’ Guilds, they’re cut along racial lines, wouldn’t make sense for either of.