Please go, Captain Ackmus, and see to the proper maintenance of our peace." The new captain bowed and left to assume his new duties, at a significant ...ncrease in salary and prestige, it should be noted.We heard later that Prince Kilgot met Capt. Ackmus at the ramp and there was a tearful parting on both sides. It seemed that everybody who knew Prince Kilgot loved him, including Sally and me.That afternoon, Queen Hepsol invited me to her chambers and chased everyone else out. "Sir Billackerman,. I guess! I was asleep. Are you saying ... would you’ve been angry if Tara had touched me?”Dan started to speak then stopped himself. I watched as emotions chased each other across his face. He didn’t seem to want to answer. I waited. I wanted him to answer. He could tell I was waiting.He finally licked his lips and answered, “I guess I wouldn’t be angry if you both wanted ... but if Tara did something like that to you that you didn’t want, or when you were asleep, then I’d be angry with her. In. "'O love you're not going to go wandering of in the middle of the night," he turns to me as I finish my struggle with the buckskin trousers."Saul," Nimrod says from the bed. "we can't stop her, but if it makes you feel any better you can roust some of the others." Saul has the candle lit now and I can see that Nimrod has the bedding pushed half way down his chest. His skin has raised goose bumps from the cold."Or better yet," I say through clinched teeth. " go back to bed and keep Nim warm.". “The Mission as it was originally explained to us was to retrieve the First Offspring. That is part of the Mission, but the real purpose of our Mission is to ensure the current Supreme Royal Zldat remains in power. To do that, the Supreme Royal Zldat needs his family’s predictions of the future updated. The First Offspring is the most proficient member of the Supreme Royal Zldat’s family when it comes to predicting the future. Therefore, we are to return the First Offspring to the Supreme Royal.