"We had a great time." Alex told us, "Me and Bethany have never had a vacation since we became smart cats. Our bungalow was right on the beach." Alex ...ot to know the head chef. They had him and his wife over for dinner on the third night. Alex fixed some of the dishes Mrs. Sandelong had taught him in Misore. He got an immediate job offer. He turned it down. Bethany and I learned to swim in a class at the resort pool. They loved the train ride to and from Santa Barbara. The trip was seven days. The woman disappeared after that but somehow I knew she would be there after we landed. Our time on the liner was nice, we even ate dinner with the captain several times. She was impressed with Dragon after she hissed at a waitress bringing a meal and refused to let her eat it. It turned out something was wrong and the food was bad.We took the first shuttle down to Mirror and used a marshal vehicle to go to the central detention. Dragon rode my shoulder as we walked through the doors and I. There’s unemployment. We’ve got some savings,” Max said.“It won’t go far,” Marylou said.“It will go far enough,” Max replied. He scrubbed his face with his hands.Marylou said, “I saw the video from the bar on the news last night.”“One of my better moments,” Max said. He looked over his shoulder at his wife to see her reaction.“I almost didn’t recognize you,” Marylou said. “I didn’t know you could be like that.”“Like how?”“Violent. You were grinning the whole time that you were kicking that. Usually, he ended up convincing himself that he was imagining it. In the process, though, he was developing a very powerful crush on her. This morning, after Sam and their 16-year-old daughter, Lucy, left for work and school, it had happened again. He was alone for a few minutes before Anna went to class at the university. As he was brewing his coffee, he once again caught her glancing at him. He finally decided to address it, and turned toward her, getting hard again at the idea of getting it.