His breath, like momentary white ghosts, became highlighted in the wan, late autumn lightHe had been there, contemplating, for two hours or so, ignori...g the chill and watching the day unfold. How he hated this Sunday each year, hated the march of veterans, but was drawn in some morbid fascination annually. Each year, he observed the file of crippled soldiers, long since passed their usefulness to a society doing it's best to forget for the other three hundred and sixty four days, except in the. “Security to transporter room two. Secure the doors, but do not enter until the captain’s party arrives. Engineering, shut down power to all transporters until further notice. Lieutenant Commander Wishmaker report to the captain outside transporter room two.”“Joey,” Sarah said with her you’re-with-me tone, shortly followed by, “Lieutenant Brigley, you have the con.”Joey followed Sarah into the turbo lift, then just as Sarah instructed the lift to take them to transporter room two, her. ”The two delegations left. No more turned up in the next hour as it was getting late. I had my consorts get some food, and I discussed some rules with them as they ate.I explained that I planned to find the owners to the six, four gem mage’s boxes. They would all be bonded to each other and me. They couldn’t screw around outside the group. If anyone displeased me to the point that I banished them then I would exchange their mage’s box with a medallion.It had learned enough to make medallions. She recorded the information about thebaby's parents and place of birth in her notebook and re-filed themodified birth certificate in the cabinet for the correct birth year. Thewhole procedure had taken less than a minute.She looked at the next name and found that birth certificate. There were athousand names on her list, but once she knew what to look for, she set upan assembly line, spreading certificates out over the entire surface of atable so she could do many at once. She worked quickly.