" Regrettable as that sentiment may be, sir, French support will beinvaluable in the coming campaigns. Their loyalty is predicated upon thestrength of...your armies and the value of the estates and titles grantedby you," Sebastian lectured, "A more subtle threat and reward arerequired here at home. Hmm," he intoned, pausing briefly as if inthought. "You hold the future of this nation in your capable hands.Perhaps you should remind these recalcitrant noblemen of that truth in aliteral fashion.". This is a public location and I wish to conduct the negotiations in public. We are going to extract compensation from our Russian friends for the inconvenience and disadvantage to the British State and on behalf of one of its citizens.”“Compensation?” says Grantby, uneasily.“Precisely. Compensation. My dear Grantby, there is no prospect in hell of extracting Kustensky from the embrace of Mother Russia for him to stand conventional trial in the United Kingdom. You and Brian are here to witness. “He wants you!” she cries with flashing eyes.“Who? What are you talking about?”Before I can figure what-the-fuck, she pulls me out of the brambles, drops my arm, and runs off towards the trail. Wearing only a T-shirt and boxer shorts with my bare feet painfully tromping through prickly brambles and sharp rocks, I can barely keep up – what’s this loon-tune woman up to?“Lainey! Stop where you are!”“He wants you!”Before I can make any sense of this debacle, I find myself in the Hybrid camp with. She looked for some place to park her car and decided a shady spot beneath an ancient Oak tree would do just fine. After doing that, she locked it and walked up to what looked like a stone building as old as the trees around it. But what looked intriguing proved to be a funky looking aqua colored door, made out of wood and metal but the color! Not what she would have chosen for her own décor but the designs etched into the wood intrigued her. She saw a handle and decided to give it a try,.