I'll take care of the rest. In fact, don't do anything yet, let me call a couple people first. Where are you Monday?"We discussed her flight schedule ...nd she agreed to call me in between flights. I gave her the number on my new pre-paid phone to use and then changed the subject."I'm surprised Lizzy hasn't called you?" Why?" She likes to debrief my dates."She laughed, "Based on what you've told me about her, I'll bet in more ways than one."I had to laugh at that. "Well yeah, that too, she thinks. "My Lord, My Master, we will never leave you. There are things we must tell you, but we are constrained from doing that now by a promise. We will explain everything we can tomorrow. We just can not go into it any further now. We don't understand the tie we have to you anymore than you do. It is there and we do not want it broken any more than you do. We are yours My Lord, from now until forever, make NO MISTAKE of that."By then Ding had closed the door and had rejoined us. With June at my back,. .. That is. No, Sarge," and Hannibal bent his head low in embarrassment.The Sarge told the young man, "It's probably just the mineral water." Agarn looked at his superior, confused, "You're admitting it?!" O'Rourke said, "Sure! Dobbs's just not use to being healthy! His sunken chest is rising, becoming manly with muscles!"Randolph Agarn said, "Yeah?!" looking down at his own chest.Dobbs tried to bring himself to say something, "But Sarge..." But nothing!" O'Rourke ordered. "In a couple of days,. Even if I tried to hide how that felt to me, she must have noticed that something changed.“I’m sorry, Greg. I didn’t mean to hurt you with that.”“I know that, Karen. And thank you, it was a nice thing to say.”She looked at me for a moment.“You have changed, Greg. You are like two different persons, one is the same nice person I used to know, but the other is someone tougher, someone who has hardened during the years. I guess I can blame myself partly for that.”“No, Karen, that is much too much.