I’ll be fine. Go, go, go!”I made a shooing gesture, and Riordan tried to chuckle, almost succeeding. “Going, your Highness. Right away.”I didn...��t waste any time herding the four of them together. They spent a few moments checking their light packs for supplies, and I ran to get them a few extra potions from the camp. As they were all shouldering their bags, I felt a foreboding, sickening presence, and looked up in time to see the Archdemon fly over. Its scales reflected almost blood-red in the. The light from Kathy’s flat shone out from the building like a beacon in the darkness of the tower block. The men approached silently until they were outside Kathy’s door. She was still oblivious to everything, save the typing of the keys. Then it came. A knock on the door! Kathy glanced over to her clock. 1845! Odd she thought but then thought it might be Brendan back again. Without thinking she walked over to the door and opened it. “Bren………………..!” Kathy stopped mid sentence. No. Linda and I have not made any real firm plans yet this weekend. I can ask her if we can keep Saturday nights for the four of us, and that leaves Friday and Sunday nights for just her and I. Do ya think that will work?”“Yea, I think that might work out great!” she said, a big grin on her face.“OK, perfect. I’ll ask Linda tonight, you can ask Keith. We are already talking about going back to skate in Reseda on Friday, I like that place a lot better than the place Linda and I first met at.”“Yea. "Yes indeed! Creditors want, and are entitled to, satisfaction under our laws. Many nonCits fall into slavery every month, while some of the more fortunate ones manage to earn enough money to qualify for citizenship. There is both downward and upward mobility. Being a non-cit is not a condition of birth but a status one falls into by not being or remaining productive enough to achieve or maintain citizenship."I had learned something new, that non-citizens could be enslaved for debt. Fortunately.