"Come on. We can go inside and fix you up." We sat at a large wooden table inside the inn, which is achingly similar to the Lion's Pride. Thell went a...ead and bought honeyed bread and Darnassian bleu, with hot tea, refusing to eat anything himself. Avalon was more interested in a squirrel she'd snagged while we'd been talking, and she ate while the innkeeper looks sick. "Thank you so much for your kindness, Thell. I owe you one." I said, already feeling drowsy. "Nah, it's okay. I mean, I don't. "Mister Milton probably sussed that you and I were shagging, judging by the smirk and wink he gave me when we were signing the deeds of the apartment." Old Mister M is a randy devil, and over the years I worked there I've had nearly as much cock from him as from the Royal Lancers ... and he's bloody good for his age." She disengaged her naked body from mine and got out of the rumpled bed. "Anyway you don't have a table, or the models soldiers, to play war games. Fighting those battles really. . are you leaving soon?”“About fifteen minutes ... hold on ... make it 30 ... we have a flat,” Jim said.I turned and looked at the truck ... yup ... right rear. Changing it gave me something to do.While that was going on, Jim and the miner and his herd loaded $18,070,000.00US, twenty three and a half million AU, worth of gold ... a half tonUS ... one thousand pounds or four hundred fifty four kilos in the back of my truck ... plus all our gear. It was going to be a very slow trip home ... and. . American industry can speedily replace the tools. The public doesn't need to know'.This ... and similar information was what Professor Andrea Koenigsknecht-Slagle-Austin Ph.D. was looking for. It was a perfectly legitimate reason to go back to the abandoned base and Sanderson could deliver her.Andrea still didn't know everything the watch could to ... from what she knew ... she could go as far as her leaving date... 1987 ... and any time she had lived in the future... 1988 and thousands of.