She'd have to try again later."Fine," Nicole huffed, pushing past Jason and walking down the path backto the house. Jason looked back at Johanson hold...ng his hands out with awild, 'What the fuck??' expression. Jason pointed to his mouth, zipped itshut with an angry movement, and then jabbed a finger at Johanson.The motion was unmistakable: 'Keep your mouth shut you asshole, or wecould get into real trouble!'Johanson snapped out of it and realized what had just happened.'Shit!' he thought to. She did not know that she was his first visit after his CAP testing, and she had not been told that that Dora had offered a supernumerary to Richard if he selected Mirabelle and her mother. The colony’s chief AI was determined to build stable, nurturing relationships, and judicious bribes – err ... enticements – were an important tool.Dora announced Richard; he entered and stood frozen. Rather than the typical naked, posturing, sometimes simpering, candidate, he stared at a slim, honey haired. She could just barelymake out the profile of the man that sat behind that desk. "Welcome to Interrogation Room Number Four. I am Colonel Marcos andyou are Maria Alonzo, 23 years old, single, a waitress, and in a lot of trouble.I know that you are a member of the People's Liberation Front and are involvedin crimes against the government. You are here to explain to me exactly whatactivities your organization is planning and who else is involved. I want namesand I want places and I want times!". "Definitely! Both of them can and have done it," he told me."That's fine. Let's get lined up, and then Airmid can cast the transfer spell." Which one do we want to go to?" Airmid asked pointing to the four cairns visible."Since this is a line-of-sight transfer and could be off a bit, try to put us between the cairn on the right and the second one. That way there is less chance of appearing too close to either one of them," I told her. Airmid started the spell then, and I could feel how powerful.