”“She’s been attending faithfully for some time. Is she interested in being received as a catechumen?”“I haven’t asked her, because I’m ...oncerned she’d do it to make me happy.”“Even though she’s not your girlfriend?”“My mom thinks Angie has a master plan that involves marrying me and she’s taking it slowly, step-by-step.”“What do you think?”“I think you would need to talk to her, Father. I’m sure she’d talk to you about it. She’s planning to come to as many of the Lenten services as we can. The Cab reached the huge gas planet after about 20 minutes. He turned to us again. “We are almost there now. This DeNoir Planetjumer does eight percent ovr light speed after all.”“This is the fasted it can go?”“Unfortunatley yes, Sir. This is not a FTL shuttle able to reach other systems and am not licenced to go past the system. You do know about the shipmasters licence required by Union law for any conveyance going past the light threshold. Inters system traffic skims only a few percent above. Annalise, you'll have toteach me that someday." Maybe; have you gotten the previous spell I taught you down?" Markusnodded. "Then sure, and don't worry. It's really no issue to teach you.It's been nice to have someone else interested in the arcane artsaround here."Markus set to eating his meal. The group had only been back incivilization for a day and he'd needed mending at the time, so hehadn't had a chance to really eat a proper meal. The eggs were lightand fluffy and the sausage was spiced. ’ ‘Ann!’ ‘Sorry, sorry. Yes, after the second I couldn’t make my mind up whether to be Cole, Adams or Selby. I wasn’t Cole or Adams for long enough to grow into either of them, so I decided to be Selby again.’ ‘That makes sense.’ ‘So when do you want to take me to Dinner?’ ‘It will have to be next week sometime. I am off up north for the rest of this week. What about Sunday next, would that suit?’ ‘That will be fine, it gives me time to go out and buy a really glamorous dress, and some very.