He must have known I had listened. How could he not? “I'm Jeff,” he said, “I'm the hotel masseur. If you need anything, you let me know.” He h...nded me a little blue card with his name and information on it. On it, it also read: "First one on me!” As he walked away, he turned to me and said, “Hope to hear from you!” I grinned and waved nervously as he entered the elevator. I took the stairs. Downstairs, I found a nice little restaurant that had a view to the swimming pool. I quickly grabbed. But a couple of minutes was all that Mrs Lavender was giving her eager Ed. She drew away saying, “ excuse me Ed, I rather need to visit the powder room, do you mind.”Ed’s face fell from the little heaven he’d been in, “ Oh sure Margot; OK.” he said as she walked off. He’d never been dumped on the floor before and walked back to the table feeling stupid.In her own time she had rejoined him, obvious to his annoyance. But within a short while she had him eating out of her hand and he even plucked. The Admiral however suddenly stopped contacting him and all his efforts to reach Admiral Swybar were unsuccessful.Only after he had returned home after his first Academy year he learned why his father wanted him in as an officer in the fleetIn order to save the Suppor Clan clan and make it rich, his father did business with the Worm.For the first time in his life, Namamir respected his father for a decision the old man made.The Suppors had fallen in disfavor with Emperor Soron the Third.The. Down the street was an alley where I could turn around. My headlights illuminated a pile of rags against the brick wall to the right. I was turning my head to watch behind when the pile moved. Something told me I had to check it out. It was beginning to drizzle, just a generally nasty night in a bad part of town down by the water. I left the truck running with the lights on and got out carefully. The pile was a body trying to sit up. I crouched down and a small voice said, ‘Don’t hit me, please.