”“Okay,” grinned Paul, “so we sink this somewhere then there’s only the CIA, no worries.”“A faction of the CIA,” Mia pointed out, “n...t the whole organisation.”“Who is above Honeyeva?” wondered Claude. “Directing the operation. Who wants to know about the genetic engineering?”“We’ll have to ask her,” said Mia.“You mean...?”“What do you think she’s been doing to Grace?”“Yeeees...” Claude wondered how far Mia would take it. “But where?”“Let’s get the others first,” she said, “then they can help us. Well, as I also told you, after being wounded I was evacuated back to the hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. It was at Clark that I met the person who is with us here tonight."Vietnam was not a very popular war in Hollywood. There were some obvious exceptions — Bob Hope, for example. But a number of the names — Jane Fonda comes to mind — were spending their time in Hanoi. There was one notable exception, though, and her name is Ali McGrath. Frankly, many of us thought she was. Last night someone opened an unauthorized Portal near the Manor." You can't mean what I've been hearing is true? Who would do such a thing?" Emperor Z'haas."Doran snorted. "Ridiculous!" He is the only one in Oceanus that has a vested interest in disrupting this Conclave." Did anything or anyone come through this Portal?" We have yet to find anything, no. It is possible we detected the Portal in time and disrupted the Emperor's plans." That is far-fetched, Roquan! Would he be capable of doing. Mr. O’Connell is going to till the fields with it for us. Oh yes, this is Mr. Bartley O’Connell,” I told Joe before turning to Bartley.“This is Joe, our assistant and general handy man,” I told him, as Bartley reached out to shake Joe’s hand. Joe was quite surprised by this, but shook hands with him.“Good to meet you,” Bartley said before asking, “Will either of you be riding along on the tractor with me?”“We could do that?” I asked in surprise.“Yes, we have a jump seat on all of our big.