Inside the briefing room the session was just getting underway. Blakey called the role to each name there was an associated'Yo' or whoop in reply; Ani...a, Greta, Julie, Merrill, Ada and Joelle"Permission requested for one day compassionate leave, ma'am" Joelle replied instead of the anticipated cry."For precisely what?" Growled the Captain."To rescue my sister from a state mental hospital" Joelle replied."Request denied, do it in your own time!" Barked Blake.Kate's voice rose "Executive overrule. "You let me down last night," said Maria. "You didn't molest me once.In fact you didn't even kiss me good night." My apologies, Maria but, I was asleep on my feet," said Tracy.As Tracy was apologizing, there was a commotion in the kitchenfollowed by Dusty, wearing only his baby doll followed by Charlene ina chemise, both with coffee. Dusty sat in a chair followed byCharlene on his knee. Charlene had one arm around Dusty's neck andleaning towards Maria announced, "I'm keeping her."Maria. I’ll be one and a half minutes if I run up the stairs...”*When I returned, Sarah was crying. I also noticed that she had changed into a T-shirt and jeans, but mostly I noticed that she was crying.She sniffed, and tried to blink away her tears.“What’s wrong?” I asked.“Sorry – I should just go.” Her voice dropped to a mumble as she reached for the door. “Thank you... er, oh...”“No!” My voice was sharper than I intended. “I mean, please don’t go. Stay the night with me.”“Sorry, I just always screw. And that is just the ones we know about. There has been other deaths that have been of a suspicious nature but that was before we knew about the posion.”“We have found our walls have been breached, some of the logs have been hollowed out and was being used as weapon caches. We have secured the weapons and filled the logs with paving mud. It has dired as hard as stone.” ******There was a lot more about the running of the City State and the day too day operation of the palace. One thing I.