Samantha this is James Duff,” Douglas said making introductions. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Duff,” Samantha said greeting the guest. “Welcome to o...r home.” “Nice to meet you too, Mrs. Silverton,” James said returning the greeting. “Please call me James.” “I will, if you will call me Samantha,” Samantha said. “Shall we go into the living room?” Going into the living room, Douglas asked their guest if he could get James anything to drink. James said he would take a Scotch on the Rocks. Samantha. ‘‘You got it, ‘ I replied raising my hand to call a halt and sending out a stop message to the Drow.It was a long ten minutes before we got a message from Szymon that we could proceed, as well as an indicated direction. We soon picked up the adelshaut ourselves as they were crooning over a troichin plantation and obviously mentally encouraging them to grow ... or, as Xi suspected, to put them under Vultoqi control. Still, as vulnerable as they were, we needed to press on towards where I was. Except for Celeste, the others opted for the surf-and-turf combination, while I had the cold cuts and the veal. Celeste, it turned out, was vegan, which gave the waitress momentary pause; but for her the kitchen produced a mixed green salad and a stir-fry of zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower and two sorts of beans, with a few carrots in there for color. It was all really quite good; from a culinary view, at least, I seemed to have chosen well.Wine was available by the bottle or glass. Without any. He wanted to make sure there were no delays. Back at home, after spending a few hours killing hordes of zombies, he finally got around to checking on the delivery time of his package, nodding as everything appeared on schedule. As he was about to return to his game, he got a text. Seems like Mr Proussad was ready to collect on his promise ... He was supposed to call him this evening at the number he just texted him from. Sitting back considering, Max made a couple additional plans of his own.