I almost fell over laughing when I saw that inside were ten Pizzas from Dom’s Knee Hoes. I picked up the carrier with the pizza and had the kids get...the bottles of sodas we found behind it. The ISS team had cycled the airlock by then. They guided us to where they said it was safe to take off our helmets.“Ok. You are so not getting the thirty minutes, or it’s the free delivery deal,” I said to the astronauts in each of their native languages.The kids knew Russian and English, so they understood. A private meeting between Mage Cornelius and the priesthood and noble conclave of the Craebh Ruadh had ended with terms being settled and a promise by the Craebh Ruadh to deal with the occasional inconvenient fanatical Coalition Mage who could not be controlled by Cornelius. What the Craebh Ruadh got out of this I do not know, but Morgana, Julia and Simon were happy enough about it, so I refused to worry about it as well.The evacuation of the Outer Realms continued apace. We had now managed to. Whenever I went to the front desk to check out a new book,she always smiled and told me that knowledge was power and regular reading increased your knowledge.One day I was the only one in the library reading a book and Miss Daniels walked back to the table I was sitting and told me that she could use a hand sorting and categorizing a couple boxes of new books that had just arrived,would I like to come back to her private office and help out?Sure why not I said,the book I'd been reading was not. But I knew he had a point. I had seen more than one male in full tent tonight, no doubt caused by Malomar's mere presence.Jack was back on his story. "Well, hoping she was real appreciative for my flat-fixing effort, I wanted to tag her again as a night cap, but she said she had to get up early. Which, in a way, while disappointing, meant I could get home, late as hell all ready, to the little lady I so loosely call wife. But Malomar told me she had enjoyed it and wouln't mind a rematch, her.