.." Morg Windsor?" and when the Herald nodded "I have not been able to undo the damage done to them. Yet. So, my Herald, what is the problem?" It appe...rs, Ma'am, ahh ... they have over five thousand tonnes of gold and also of platinum to sell ... Before I came over I did a bit of research — that is ten years' usage of gold and about thirty years of platinum for the whole kingdom. And, no, we don't have enough funds in treasury to purchase all of it." Jonathon, there is not that much precious. Did Miss Burrow see Mary-Jane? How did she know about calling her Janie? I tried to push the stress out of my mind, to no avail. If Miss Burrow saw Mary-Jane too, why was she showing herself to me? Was I just some rando she decided was convenient to fuck? I'm not sure how I felt about that. She and I hadn't exactly talked about "what" exactly we were. Friends? Dating? Fuck buddies? Whatever the label, she was still my first. That felt somewhat meaningful.Arriving at my dorm room, I leaned back. All four women seemed capable enough, and they certainly had and adventurous disposition, but that did little to ease his protective conscience that they would be placed in such uncertainty and danger he was almost considering abandoning the entire idea. But then surely they would only go after Bass on their own, that committed they seemed. It would be so much simpler if the women were not so damn determined.He knew with Aba's and Cog's help he could easily take the Maidens Revenge from the. The sensors dying would be a tipoff, both that the attack had begun and that the attackers were who we expected. I made my way to my little 'panic room' in the basement, setting booby traps as I went, and waited.It was about four thirty a.m. when the first sensor was shut off. Much to my surprise, the controller's sudden beeping awoke me from a rather sound sleep. Dimly, I could hear the electronic countermeasures lighting up. The dull thuds of explosions and the muted rattling of machine guns.