“Is the evening audience going to be NSO trainees, too?” I asked Remas.“I don’t know. I didn’t know about the afternoon. We have people who ...re responsible for audience development and they didn’t keep me informed of things any better than the contract office did,” Remas said.“Has that blown over?” I asked.“Well, I haven’t been back at the office since you got here,” Remas said. “I got an email from Dr. Donahue this morning that said the source of the miscommunication had been identified and. But there were two sons below him and it was imperative to get him married so that their marriages could proceed.Varsha’s family was a middle-class farming one. They weren’t rich but neither were the poor. The land just about fed the six of them and allowed her dad to put aside something little for the future. A future that included a dowry for his fifth child. So when the proposal of marriage to Lokesh was brought to them, her dad’s first reaction was to refuse since he knew he would not be. ‘I dislike your warped sense of humor. Bring her to me.’ ‘Yes sir.’ * * * The last-on recruit in the legal and documentation department of the corporation that exported the military field kitchens and surgical theatres it produced to fourteen countries was Rhona Paxton. The somewhat feisty short-cropped blonde with almost iridescent cobalt blue eyes was in a dangerous mood that morning. The reason for that began the previous night when the guy she was living with mounted her, as usual, after. It is safe to enter.We went inside and listened at each of the four doors opening off the hall. We tried the doors and found that three were locked, but the fourth opened easily. I ducked into the room and did a quick search. This was a typical efficiency apartment with the bed folded into the wall. The others checked the closets, etc., while I pulled the bed down. When I did, a body fell out and rolled on the floor.Salamander made a quick check and said, She's still alive, but I don't know how.