It opened and Elizabeth entered. “Hi, guys. Been here long?”Kathleen answered, “Catherine let me in half an hour ago, then vanished after tellin... me to make myself at home. I think she is in the kitchen. John has just arrived, and I told him he can play with my breasts tonight, if that is all right with you girls?”Elizabeth did not hesitate. “Sounds fine, Kathleen. We’ll make sure he doesn’t go too far until we are married.”Catherine appeared, having heard the voices. “Oh, good. You are all. They may have struck a submerged rock, or the drogue may have deployed, or perhaps they stuck their bows into a breaker. I’ll report the wreck to the port admiral. Have my gig cleared, Mr. Hearn.”By some inexplicable miracle, Bartleby was waiting for him with a dry shirt, breeches and an older uniform coat. Wrapped in his oilskins and donning his southwester, Thomas had himself rowed to the shore. A few minutes later saw him waiting in Admiral Clements’s anteroom whilst a sleepy lieutenant. "We planned for that, I hoped we would not need it but the Fauz Stream destroyed that possibility when it hit the planet," he said."Yes it was indeed unfortunate to have hit the planet; the fact that they used the drone to warn the Lodi off was amazing. We are lucky it did not affect the dimensional shielding we put in place," Xanthus said."True they learned well, we will need to give him access to the grotto and hope for the best. They will eventually learn about the shielding, and then the. The brain implant was to allow William more memory, as the new eyes would record everything to a chip.The video could be downloaded to a laptop, from a neck implant that was on the back of his neck. The eyes could not only see in the dark and afar, but they could collect data. When activated, it would seem to Liam that he was seeing things in a Head-Up Display, and would be able to gather detail by scanning his surroundings. Doc suspected that in time, thanks to the nanites from ARMS, the eyes.