.. by their own request.Eventually, the miscreant was declared guilty and sentenced to banishment to Chaos ... a death sentence ... since Cassandrian ...ales were extremely unsuited for survival on that rustic and violent planet.Return and distribution of his embezzled gold took most of a Cassandrian year and I was back in the bank ... just in time to admonish Cassie."Eva? Eva Hero Caretaker Coordinator? Mistress Eva? Shit. I'm so fired." Cassie moaned, "I liked my job." You haven't done anything. He'd been worried - after her reaction last time, perhaps she'd told her parents. But Raj had heard nothing - there'd been no angry calls from Geeta's mother, nor had his wife said anything, thank God. And so he wanted to sit with Geeta again, not with the plan of doing anything to her, but in the hope that he could pretend nothing had happened before."Hello Uncle," said Geeta, giving him her beautiful smile that made him leap inside. "Can I get you some tea?" He accepted her offer and waited. With the appearance of the Writ of Stone, the death penalty was revoked forever and was not a judgment that any justice, goddess or not, could use to condemn another individual, no matter what they’d done. The goddesses were not to be permitted lethal retaliation for any crime an individual might commit. Civil enslavement and loss of property was the worst one could expect in a judgment.He noticed that the Praetor had withdrawn from his mind, evidently satisfied that it had answered his. They were the best I had for this kind of weather. The people I had met so far had all seemed nice. This route was shorter than my last one so I knew I would have a couple of hours to kill before my parents got home from work. At one of the last houses on my route I walked up to the porch and rang the bell. Nobody came, so I knocked again. Still no response so I turned and started down the steps when I heard a deep male voice say,” Can I help you?” I turned to see a guy on the other side of.