" James nodded but looked very tense."You started to ask to see what we had. We would like to do that. However, if we did, our concern is that it woul... taint what you have found on your own and with the help of the journalists. We definitely do not want to see that happen. We would like to see your group succeed through your own efforts. None of us are lawyers, so we may be being overly cautious." James, Clarence," said Aoife, "the 'flesh peddler' operation appears to have principals or agents. ”God, I thought, this man must be at least a thousand years old. The best Terran serums could keep you alive for two hundred years. He must have access to better formulae from other worlds.“Back in those days,” he continued, “the planet hadn’t been conquered by the Xera. I don’t exactly know what its true name was back then. The best my translator could do is ‘Herma’.”He frowned across the table at the helmsman and said, “... just Herma... no letters, no numbers, no secondary notation of any. " That bad?" That bad and then some."The meal was as good as we'd come to expect and the tiramisu was outstanding. It was too bad that they didn't have it on the take out menu; it was an in-house item only. I'd asked about it before and the manager said it was too difficult to make for takeout. They'd tried it before and people would just get the tiramisu instead of a full meal.As we drove out of the parking lot, Kay was on her phone. "Hi, Alice, it's Kay, are you guys looking forward to the. 357 magnum Smith and Wesson is to Barry.Don’t worry. If Dirk ever sets foot in the house, he’ll only leave in a body bag. We will shoot to kill. I won’t be his slave ever again. I am your slave instead. He killed any love I had for him years ago. I’m convinced of it. Oh, and the diner is really picking up business, so Kayla’s involvement as a partner in the effort has paid off rather handsomely.Please give me an update on how things are with everyone, including that lovely lady doctor that.