“Ah. Elsewhere, perhaps?”“Along the promenade, maybe. But I don’t shop there much.” Her head tilted, curious. “You’re here by yourself?�...�“Yes.”She chewed her bottom lip for a moment. “It’s Pride. You’ll have a hard time getting anywhere today.” She held up a finger. “Some of my gay guy friends will have a much better idea of where to shop. I’ll ask around.”“Thanks. I’d appreciate it.”She paused and looked at me. “It’s a great parade. Some of us have the afternoon off. If you don’t have any other. ” Never having thought of that until he mentioned it, I started laughing uncontrollably and slid off the bed onto the cab floor. After calming down, I stood up and gave him a kiss on the cheek and said, “Anyone that can make me laugh that hard is a keeper.” Sitting back on the passenger seat I proceeded to slip on my stiletto heels. I tilted back the seat so that I could just barely see the cars that we passed and left my feet up on the dash. About twenty minutes later I heard a beep and. Mommy and Daddy said it would be okay and that I didn't, like, need to worry or anything, but I didn't want you to not get anything..."The girl blathered on as if no other house in the United States didn't leave him enough cookies and milk to keep him overweight and on a diet for a thousand years. Santa held back a sigh and let the girl wind herself down. Eventually, the girl ran out of steam. She pulled an empty plate from behind her back and held it out to him with both her hands. Tears. Too much risk of discovery." Agreed." Yeah. Now that we've established that, these guys would be taking a huge risk. You know I'm coming. You'll be sending out a search team when I'm late. You'll see I'm most likely dead. You start doing everything you can to find out who did this, starting in this system." We'd check all incoming and outgoing ships and trace it to them eventually." Right. They can't be stupid enough to think they'd get away with it." Unless they had help here," said David..