I’m pretty sure he just ... made a connection with Kiki without even telling her he’s rich.”Paige laughed. “At least I’m not the only one fe...ling overshadowed today.”“You?” Max raised an eyebrow. “The khaleesi?”“Please.” Paige waved him off. “Compared to these girls? I could tapdance naked on the conference table and nobody would notice today.”Max took a moment to savor the mental image before he said, “I’m pretty sure you need to at least be wearing shoes to tapdance.”Paige laughed. “I like. As quiet and sleepy this world might seem. It is the home of the most aggressive species ever to ascend, and to this day no one builds better weapons.”“Enough of this. I did not come here to listen to your propaganda induced swill. We know Brown was with Martha Masters until she disappeared. He must have used some Union clandestine trickery to make her disappear. Now he is here, if we keep tracking him, he will lead us to Martha and thus to the Experiment.”The two Kermac spies were not the only. He probably outweighed me a stone or two but I had a couple of inches on him.I smiled, wiped my face and said, "Nobody important, just a man with some manners." He's a bleedin' rebel," someone at the table said behind me. "Take him, Rafe." Don't want no trouble," I told the man quietly. His small eyes were bloodshot and rheumy."Bet y'don't," he said, pulling a long pistol from the back of his belt. We were so close together he could not really point the thing at me, and it was easy to grab his. "Where would you like to go?" she said. "How about the park?"I'd had no chance to answer, but I figured that would be all right if she didn't expect me to do a lot of walking. I was still a little weak especially after more than two weeks in the hospital."Sure, let's do it," I said."We walked along one of the paths, and the little brook made nice, I might say romantic, sounds while we did so. She took my hand, and led me kicking and screaming along. Actually, I'm only kidding about the kicking.