Make yourselves comfortable,” Rowenna replied as Artello’s people moved to the back of the room where they could watch from their ubiquitous phone... via the monitors they had set up around Hermes.The Mages and Seers then assembled along with Judas and I at the head of the bed where Hermes was lying.“Nothing from the wards by nature of a reaction,” Simone said as the Seers probed Hermes.“Morgana could you assist? The rest of you please stand ready,” Rowenna finally announced as she scanned. And all that research! It was hard work, I’ll tell you. Granted, it was educational. I knew a helluva lot more about world affairs and the intricacies of international relations than I’d ever known before. Unfortunately, I didn’t find that doing all that research was itself fascinating. In fact, it was boring as hell.So after awhile I got to thinking. I wondered if maybe I could come up with a more efficient way to rid the world of bad people. Maybe I couldn’t give Barbara Walters a nosebleed. "Likely," I said, "you're too pretty to ignore." Been told about that, about rape I mean," she said. "Women spoke of it, back there, some of the women. Talking about Germans, they were."I nodded."Must be awful," she said. "I like swiving, but I sure wouldn't..." She stopped and looked at me, hand to her mouth.I smiled."Did I say that?" she said and laughed, tapping her heels on the floorboards."You miss him?" I said.She shook her head and then nodded. "He did me proper, he did, most every. "He looked at her quizzically for a moment, and then nodded. "I don't need to know the details, but you've done a good job whatever it was you've done. I'm going to give you a harder nut to crack, and it might take a while, but we have until you graduate. I don't think you'll be going on Midshipman Cruise with him, but I'd like you to find a way to turn Midshipman Second Shiplett around."There is no other word for it, a part of her mind observed. Lenore simply gaped at the Commander, and then,.