. unwilling, really ... to let his scars get in the way of a chance to find what she thought of as “true love” again.Then Bobby Dalton, who had wo...ked an almost miracle in Christy’s life, had stepped in and worked another one on Erica. Since Erica had been spending time with Bobby, her personality had blossomed. She smiled more, was easier to talk to, and just generally more pleasant to be around. It didn’t hurt that Christy ran her own business and had done so without a man’s help for years.. As he made a U-turn to go to respond to the call, he was fuming. He WAS a sergeant, after all, the supervisor of the shift, and he shouldn’t have to handle trivial calls like this one. He had twelve beat cars working for him, and one of them should have been given this call! As he drove, Rick hit a button on his mobile computer, and checked to see what his troops were doing. He quickly saw that they were all busy, doing police work. He should have known. Kathy was a very good dispatcher, (among. I returned to collect him, a final reminder of my daughter.We climbed up a narrow ladder that I assumed must have been some sort of service duct. Corroded with age, the rungs creaked as they bore our weight. Emerging into brilliant sunshine, I glanced up into a pale blue sky, appreciating the fact that bad weather did not mar my emergence into this strange new world. I powered up my iPhone and, unsurprisingly, there was no signal. Sarek looked at the gadget with a sense of curiosity and I tried. He did not elaborate, he did not need to. The chauffeur knew which spaceports had the facilities, which users of first class cabs would consider appropriate. The cab let them off at a taxi gate reserved for persons traveling on first class. ‘We wont be needing you anymore,’ Baglian said while walking away from the cab. He had already left a tip for the chauffeur, using the payment system access in the passenger section of the cab. Most people tipped in public, next to the cab, when they decided.