Intrigued, I opened it to find a cream cake with a huge strawberry on top — my absolute favourite naughty treat. Grinning with delight, I asked him ...ow he knew. He tapped the side of his nose and muttered something about government spies. Pretending haughtiness, I drew myself up straight and, in a booming voice, said, ‘Tell me! Your queen commands it.’ After that, it became a sort of little joke between us. On Mark’s next weekly visit, the first time he called me Your Majesty I said,. It appeared that she was right and there was a connection between Merlin and this boy. There might still be hope for her if the druids could locate the boy first and she could use him against the wizard perhaps.Merlin had been able to divine that Eoric had returned to Dalriada several days before and he had set out immediately. He had followed the boy's progress and was now heading for Dunadd himself as he knew that would be where the Dalriada force would go next.He was intrigued by the. It was almost a year later that I found out that the bastard had told them I'd tried to steal his work and sell it. The feds had investigated, not that I knew that, but never found anything because there was nothing to find. However, those fuckers never forget anything and when I tried to apply for a government job, I was denied a clearance. That was my first computer break in. Since they wouldn't tell me why, I found out on my own."Ken shook his head. He was sorrowed by how the bureaucracy was. A number of the cuter girls were being chased around the room by some of the drunker guys. I thought I heard someone on the other side of the room tossing his cookies, and wondered absently who was going to clean it up.Of course the best part was when the boss got completely smashed, and ran around with a lampshade on his head thinking he was the life of the party. After being smacked a few times by the secretaries he left them alone, though I suspected that he wasn't going to be getting off.