That’s all.” “Like what?” she snapped. “No, look, I wasn’t saying anything bad! Will you calm down?” Robert was becoming anxious, becaus... he was astute enough to realize he’d angered Riley, and yet he wasn’t sure why, or how to fix it. “Look,” he continued, “I hate this town. It’s small, and people here are small-minded. You get to live in a big town and I’m sure there’s a lot more to do where you’re from. Yeah, well, anyway, I’m just saying that I’ll bet you’ve had some cool experiences that. Then I started to play music he might like. The second week, I played a song from one of my favorite indie musicians called Cheers Darling by Damien Rice. It’s a break up song, sad song. I had my back to him when he spoke for the first time. “I like Damien Rice.” I almost dropped my coffee. He spoke. I turned around. “For a minute there I thought you were a mute.” I smiled. He didn’t smile back. He was quite the sexy man. He always wore a suit, never allowed the suit wear him. He was so fly, so. ’ She really didn’t seem invested in this conversation, Gray realized. She was holding back, perhaps to protect her already injured feelings. ‘What would I say… if not to apologize? I made a promise to you, and I broke it.’ Amanda shrugged, reaching out to cup a pink rose bloom in her hand from the bush alongside the bench. ‘I shouldn’t have asked you.’ ‘Why not?’ he asked softly, suddenly wondering what Brown and Miss Rose had said to her after he’d departed. ‘I think you had every right.’. " I see," Jim said. "That explains your understanding of sensors." Yes. It also leaves me as the closest thing we find here to someone capable of commanding a Star Ship." Are you suggesting that I make you captain of the Prime?" No, we can retro fit the Prime with disrupters. For that matter we could also retrofit it for any new weapons we came up with."Jim still knew his daughter, besides she had laid down groundwork for more than that. He nodded for her to continue."Father, I want to command.