"I don't think so. Not this late in life. For five years after Susan we tried hard for a second, but to no avail. Now it would seem somehow wrong to p...esent Susan with a sibling younger than her own child." Wrong answer," said the Emir, "Repeat after me: ~As the Master wishes.~"~As the Master wishes, she dutifully intoned.He gestured to the whipping bench and she draped herself over it, a little nervously."Let me see," he said, smiling, "Called me 'silly' to my face. Questioned me about my. Eric wasn’t going to try to turn Millie into a swordsman, but she should be able to help us defend the shop if we had a problem with brigands. Millie’s willingness to pick up whatever was handy and stick whoever was in front of her could be the difference between us all winning and living, or us all losing and dying.While Jim and Henry were working on our armor Eric and I got to know the town. To my mind it was a sleepy little fishing village, but Eric said that by local standards it was. " Dana said thoughtfully still looking down at the key."Seeing as how we're right in the neighborhood what say we head over to LAX and have a little look see?" Candy suggested."What about all that need a written warrant stuff?" I asked smugly."With all the dirt we already have on this guy whatever we find will probably be insignificant in the big picture." Candy answered."Besides," Dana said. "If it turns out to be something, why, we'll just have to pretend we never went there."Without a word I. “Please bring Bill up to speed on the manual operation of your weapon systems. I want him to understand fully how to track and fire manually. A little later, we’ll teach him how to use your augmentation.”“Yes, Commander.”“Temporary Commander, and Arlene still works just fine,” she snarled at the AI, the conversation having obviously occurred before.“Yes, Commander,” it responded as Arlene worked her way into the pilot’s seat, the AI’s voice determined.“Oh, yeah,” she called over her shoulder as.