”“No more than the truth setting you free,” I said.He chuckled. “Which brings us back around to the need for you to tell me the truth.”“So...you can force me to self-incriminate?” I asked, feeling outraged.“Something like that,” he said.“Good luck with that.”“You’re confident,” he said. “Good. That’ll make this so much easier.”“What exactly?” I asked. “You haven’t asked me any incriminating questions.”“No, not yet I haven’t,” he said and glanced at me. “Tell me, do you know where Valory Rosenbaum. Either I misjudged, she was lucky, or she had an early warning system. When I came into the room, Roxanna was taking a tutorial on our phone system. At a guess, someone in HR had gotten her started.She earned another brownie point by not ignoring me. I may be the boss, but that has never stopped rudeness. Roxanna heard me coming and quickly gave me her full attention. I asked how things were going. There had been a great deal of press attention early in the day, but it died. Most likely someone. I’m an accountant. Any abilities I have probably withered away to nothing long ago.’ ‘Nonsense,’ he said, ‘you are a born healer.’ ‘Enough,’ Kat said wearily. * * * * * Earth, 2113 ‘Prince Randall, what’s wrong?’ Katrina asked the High Prince of Venus as she drove him to the airport. His emergency ejection pod had crashed on Gramps’s farm. After she had explained to him that there were no spaceports in rural Iowa, she had told him that she would take him to the closest airport, where he could. I'll be in touch again when we go after the other hostages." Good. Give them hugs from us."Katherine and Jenna had calmed down enough that I was able to offer the hugs from Renée. Of course, that was after some introductions. Once that was done, I extracted Michael. He would have plenty of time to explain things in detail later.I said, "I hate to interrupt but I really need to talk to you."Michael nodded, and after giving his wife and daughter another hug each he followed me to the other end of.