"What did they offer you? I had paid for the protection of the guild, its members should have offered me aid and comfort, or at least defied our enemi...s. Isn't that part of the oath? You'd taken my gold and silver and we had a bond between us!" I growled in anger, ordering him to reply."They could offer the guild more, much more. If we delivered you into their hands they promised us full distribution rights for their spirits, and their full protection ... their gold and their steel too. They'd. "This is where it gets a bit complicated," and he explained the intricacies of extraordinary stock manipulations, the inner workings of the SEC, and the ways in which our lawyers were fire walling the transaction. In the end, I understood about fourteen percent of it, if that.The gist of the deal remained the same. The stock buy-back would occur automatically, by computer, in the dead of night, but the government, in the form of the SEC and the FBI, would sweep in, block settlement, and sweep. "Cap, how are they planning on inserting us?" AA's gonna be handling that for us. They have a 130 going to a strip near where you need to go. They are picking up a load of rubber for some Colonel here in Saigon." Yea, white rubber." Sarge, that's none of our business, they will get you in and from there it's up to you."Damn I thought a poppy pickup, just what we didn't want to get involved in. The security from the Khmer Rouge would be heavy, and we would probably have to shoot our way out.. ‘I didn’t doubt you. I was just asking since he was an asshole’, I said, trying to console her.‘We barely even talked. I don’t think I want to be married anymore.’, she said suddenly.‘Luckily, I caught him before our wedding. What if next time I get married and find out he’s an asshole after that? I’m educated. I can look after myself’, she said.‘Yes, if that’s the point of marriage’, I said though I knew I was answering to a rhetoric.‘What else? Kids? There are already too many people in this.