“So that’s your new friend?” he asked.“Yeah, Thia got her for me. She said now my friends were all dogs with one leg missing. I think she mean... it lovingly not as a slur,” I explained.I’ll bet you a hundred bucks she had to search the whole country to find that dog,” Gray said.“Mikah, her name is Mikah, and I’m not sure where she came from. Thia explained that I would be better off not to know. Mikah was in law enforcement, and lost the leg in the line of duty.” I explained.“Sorta like us. So. Anyway, back to the situation with your dad. I think if he gets out of prison, he’ll do his damnedest to take Spurgeon away from you, either in toto or client by client. He and Matheson together could cause you real trouble. Are there others loyal to your dad?”“Yes, but that loyalty waned quite a bit because he’s a rapist, a child-abuser, and a kiddie-porn purveyor; at least according to them. My friends weren’t children, no matter what the government says.”“Would any of those who were loyal in. “Why do that? Surely The Personalia know where all the stars are?”Catherine had to explain, “Not really, Elizabeth. The Personalia have locations for all the stars, but these locations are mathematical constructs that relate one spot in the cosmos to another spot in the cosmos. If you ask them to relate them geographically, they have trouble telling you the answer, as a mathematical position is a variable which changes continually, and as a consequence the start point and end point of every. Larry’s the brother-in-law now.” Dad shook his head. “That had always bothered me. I worried that Larry was under your control like any of our security guys or suppliers.”“Oh crap,” I felt nauseous to think of it, “I brain-fucked my brother to steal his bride?”“If you ever write an autobiography, you’ll have a title.” Dad’s black humor was strongest when he was sad. I hung my head.“If I wrote an autobiography, it’d mostly be fiction,” I told him. “I don’t know most of what makes me, me. What.