You can even start playing golf again. Why are you so set against me working?”“I know how it works! First it’ll be lunches with the girls. Then ...t’ll be after work drinks, then maybe a girl’s night out. I know the pattern. The wolves will flock to you, and soon you’ll be on the backseat of a car or in a cheap motel.”“So the whole reason you don’t want me to work is because you’re afraid I’ll turn into a slut? You have so little faith in me? You stop by for drinks after work with the other. The Governor, and all the Civil Service Officers on Atlantis-At had a meeting to try to decide what to do about what we suspect. We have one group going over the man's CAP score and another pulling all the police records we could about him and his concubines.We also managed to get all the recordings of his pod before it was separated from the ship. We're fairly sure now that he was a sociopath. What we have asked the planetary AI is this: how did he slip by the CAP process? I sincerely doubt. He also confided in the Chief Eunuch that the acquisition of these nine women would allow them to dispose of some of the less used women in the harem, especially any who had been in the harem of his grandfather.The Chief Eunuch asked, "Shall I strangle them now, or wait until after the competition?" Oh, no. Don't strangle them, sell them," replied the Emir, "This gives other men the chance to have in their harems women who may have slept with the Emir, or even two Emirs."The announcement of. Richard had expected the thunderstorm to peter out quickly - it was asummer storm, after all - but it lingered for hours, the rain continuouslycoming down in sheets. Leslie said that she had to go to the bathroom, andthen Susie told Richard that he needed to finish setting stuff up, whichtook surprisingly little effort. He laughed at the end result. They'dstill be sitting in office chairs, but they were the leather kind and notthe government surplus kind.Zoe decided that she wanted Leslie to.