" I saw one of those horrible men today," Ron winced inwardly as he recalled that meeting, and felt shame for frightening this loving and gentle woman...as Salome shuddered and went on. "One of those who hate us for being different, little sister. He even spoke to us, Meshka, Samara, and me." Demanded we remove our veils and abandon decency right there on the street, he did," the older sister held herself tightly for a moment. "We were terrified he would rip our veils off and shame us publicly in. " Strut snorted but got in the pack. Hank, Brand, Connor and Kirk with Mar formed a column on either side of Christopher, Virlane and Rav, Nedra took the lead, Alex with the three other dragons took the rear.Once again they fought their way through the mist and the wevrils, "you know if we had Trink here muttering and Zara puffing we would be out in no time" called Connor to his father. Alex laughed "no all we need is Izzie, she would boss them scared silly and they would all turn tail and. Two minutes later Ganda walks up and Krissell immediately starts chatting in Tagalog with Ganda. Ganda is answering. This is a long and involved discussion and I have no idea what is being said, but at some point the discussion seems to be completed and the two are smiling and laughing.Krissell has not even touched her food and Ganda is motioning for both of us to get going. I tell Krissell to leave it, I will pay for a nice meal back at the hotel.In the taxi Ganda tells me that Krissell is. ”“Two thousand? That’s ... that’s literally twice our best hope of support. Why?”He grinned. “Two reasons. One, I have a letter here for the Queen and Empress. Can you direct me to where she is, so I can deliver it to her?”I held my hand out. “Easily done. I’m standing here in front of you.”He looked surprised, then stepped back a pace and bowed. “Your Majesty.” He stood back up, then handed me the note. “Almost everything is in there. The second thing is that ... is the Princess with you as.