"You know how this stuff works, and like I said last fall, I want to spend some time riding with each crew, plus maybe give people a week off now and ...hen, so I may be moving you around more than last year. Or maybe not, sometimes crew integrity is important." In other words, it sorta depends," she nodded. "Like I said, no skin off my tush, either way." Al," Crystal said. "Just throwing out an idea, what would you think of her and me switching off as trip leader this summer? It'd give her some. Hence, almost no one knew about the bandits before he alerted them.‘According to the forest’s map, there should be a village four kilometers east of us’. Riv said.‘That small place... ‘ Not just Zax, but everyone in the group had a Soul Sense or Sublime Soul Sense with the range to locate the village.‘I’m erasing our traces. Those bandits will miss us if we’ll hasten our pace for couple of minutes’. Gadgel made a quick calculation five hundred meters behind the convoy.‘Continue going at a. The bullshit about having a phone call was all a bunch of crap and I surmised I would be heading either to the Tombs or to Ryker’s Island by mid-afternoon. Julie and Uncle Joe would not get an inkling of my arrest until the evening edition came out with my photo on with the caption “Dirty Ex-Cop”.My assigned lawyer was a Jewish girl just out of law school with the unlikely name of Ruth Swartzman. She spent all of five minutes with me before the hearing and she told me the facts of life even. So I agreed. The private investigation business has its ups anddowns, you see, and things hadn't been going too well lately."He had the grace to look a little ashamed at this point. No oneinterrupted. We all looked at him expectantly. He paused to take amouthful of coffee, but surrounded by fierce, stony-faced women, heobviously felt impelled to continue."I kept telling Mrs Bairstow I was sure there was nothing to find, but sheinsisted I continue." He turned to me. "She said she was.