We laid together resting for about an hour, talking of nothing in particular. She then said we had better get some sl**p as we had an early day coming...up and needed our rest. I returned to my room to sl**p leaving the doors open beteen, I could hear her wrestling around the she finally fell of to a deep slumber and I did the same, The next morning I was just getting out of the shower and walked past the open door and she was standing there with a sheer robe on a contented smile, she said we. Pan, an Agent who was both her friend and her mentor at the Citadel, had been sent to investigate a lead on some pirates that were working in the Delta sector. He had disappeared without a trace and there had been no trained agents in position to help. Kat's reputation as an assassin had given the Agency the perfect cover for her travel to the area, purportedly to accept a contract in a planetary system on the same ship route.Everything had gone to hell in a hurry. Kat had been trailed from the. Junior wouldn't be born for TWELVE YEARS ... but here she was ... with her mother's blessing.She needed a quasi legitimate reason to 'fetch and carry'.What to do? What to do?The problem was solved by the Royal Australian Navy. Lieutenant Sanderson was all hot to trot to visit the two bases. Just to look, you understand. He wasn't going to move anything ... yet.Unlike his predecessors, Lieutenant Sanderson wanted to know more about the War that had come a hairbreadth from destroying his nation.. In a couple of minutes he was back and he carefully rolled the cart down the ramp."It's not so bad today," he said to her as he wrestled the strange machine down the ramp. It's a bearcat when the tide's low and I've got a bunch of stuff to go up the ramp. I usually unload it at the bottom and carry things up in two or three trips."It was a short walk to the float where the boat was moored, tucked in between another sailboat and a motor cruiser. It was hard to get a good look at it in those.