Between the two of us we finished that treacle sponge in record time, said our goodbyes and went out as slowly as we could manage into the night. ‘Y...ur place or mine?’ Then we discovered that we were both in the hostel. I’d been there the previous night (loco crew start very early), but this was her first night. When we arrived at the hostel, she looked at the room list. We went to her room and locked the door. ‘I don’t want my room mate to come in on us,’ she explained. ‘I think she’ll come. No-one lied. They couldn't. Even if they could they wouldn't want to. Interestingly no-ones surveys were exactly the same. It seemed to adapt on the fly according to your previous answers as no-one had exactly the same questionnaire.Life carried on mostly as normal, but there were some changes. There was no more crime. Police forces disbanded and found new jobs. Every government joined the UN, and eventually the UN became the only ruling body. Still no-one knew what the source of the channel. His eyes scanned the horizons, looking for sails or smoke; nothing but blue ocean registered. He also noted that the rock face behind him was adorned with carvings, which judging by the lichens and moss that decorated them, had been there some considerable time. He gorged on the fruit till his appetite was sated then rested as the temperature and humidity increased. He looked down to the habitation and awaited the inevitable hubbub which would occur when his loss was discovered.The early mist. All three men, along with their personal bodyguards, were picked up in their hotel suites by uniformed officers of the National Police Force of the Grand Duchy of Upper Danubia early in the morning on April 21. From the rooms of Moore and Stern, the police officers recovered multiple documents indicating the two men's prior knowledge and participation in a planned armed insurrection against the government of the Grand Duchy of Upper Danubia, to be followed by a similar such insurrection against.