” he trailed off as the old man’s name escaped him.“Hibb Keller?” she prompted.He snapped his fingers. “Yeah, I think that was the name. D...d he move?”“Passed away at the first of the year.”“I’m sorry.”She waved her hand in a dismissive gesture. “He lived a full life. To be perfectly honest, I hadn’t seen him in over ten years.”He walked up to her and asked, “Related?”“My uncle. He left the place to me.” She chuckled, shrugged, and clarified, “Well, he left it to the family, and nobody. He’s only had males for aides and also he’s made them all become SEAL’s. I don’t think you’re going to have a chance but the Captain has an ever changing staff of about sixty people that work in his division so if you luck out you could work with him in that capacity. Even if you’re selected to work in his division you will still be fast tracked because of his mere reputation. I mean you have fantastic grades and with your background as Regimental Commander you would be a shoo-in to work for. I knew I had only bought some time with the BS about trying to fool our opponents into thinking that the kids running these ships would not know what they were doing. If the Association was one tenth as smart as intelligence claimed, they would realize that these ships were smarter than they were."Ready." The Mary Celeste's artificial intelligence responded.I looked at the representation. "O.K. Now on a wall screen, put up the data on troop strengths and military capabilities."The data appeared. No sir, not yet. I was just going to ask her if she'd like something." Good, see that you do."Jason never, but never asked him to tend to him Mother. He was just too wrapped up in himself and having David see to his needs to care about anyone else. David was in doubt whatsoever that they wanted him out of the way so that the two of them could continue to scheme in his absence. He needed to be on his guard.David went into the kitchen and made Mrs Lewis a cup of coffee while he tried to consider.