“Carl, I get the impression that you sense Sereine is close to being unable to perform professionally, and you think that my treatment will keep her...from being medically retired.”“That’s part of it, Doug. The other part is the police have a need for a D-Hopper in another location and if Sereine were selected for that assignment, then she would be unable to accept a position on Earth. Therefore, by assigning her to your Embassy now, she will not be available for consideration for the other. One of the reasons I had decided that Ghanton was to be our firsttarget, other than it's proximity to the fortress, was that the Taparfamily were the direct descendants of those who helped defeat me in thegreat war so long ago. I had managed to transform several Royal Guardsthat had been stationed within the Hall, but I was still uncertain if wewould be able to cover all the escape routes from the Hall. I had most ofthe primary escape routes covered by teams of twelve, however, it waspossible. " I said with smile"Hey, if you want some more pictures that's fine but if you want something more that would be even better!" He laughed"Well actually I do have something in mind. You see my husband has a thing about me and a black man. He would love to see me with a nice looking guy like you." I said"So your dude wants to see you with me?" He asked with a little hesitation"Yes, and you see I am not sure how far I can go with this just yet but I would like to give you a hand job. Would that be. I was feeling sad, I don’t know why, although at that time I cannot say that I was in love with her, or anything like that, butI was uneasy, with a thought that she is going and I will not be able to meet her or see her as I do right now. May be I was jealous, and I also needed somebody to love or to live with, but it seemed very far, because I was not in condition to get married, I was earning good but it was not a regular income, I was working on projects, whenever I am on project, I was.