“so what's all the cloak and dagger about?” Karen hesitated before replying, a moment of doubt? Then she began to type. “I want you to just read...what I have to say, then you can reply, just let me finish...OK?”“OK,” he replied.Karen took a deep breath and began to type.It took her about twenty minutes before she was done, she had broken it down into three parts, and true to his word her brother had not interrupted at any point. Sitting back, Karen held her breath. After ten minutes without a. "Mira states, "Calm yourself my sister, once again the two of us fighting as a team prevailed."I pause, grin and correct, "You mean the three of us! Did you observe Alexi? He will be quite a formidable young warrior with proper guidance."Mira fully-glee giggles, "Yes my sister Ira! I stand corrected and I share your feelings. That reminds me, Ms. Donaldson says we are all 'falling out for PT at O-four-hundred' tomorrow. This will be an excellent start to his training, but we should acquire our. She was still dressed in her robe and a nightgown that I knew all too well from her months of covering up for Stan.“You two gave me a pretty good shock last night, but I can honestly say I was a little more worried about getting shot, than casting judgment on you.”“Rand hasn’t taken me to the range yet,” Mel confided. “I don’t think he was worried about me shooting you, but I never really asked.”I chuckled and shook my head. “We just haven’t had time since you’ve been back,” I assured her.. ’ She chirped in a happy voice. At first I thought it was odd that Nadia, who I guessed to be about twenty seven or twenty eight years of age, was still living at home. But, when I saw her home, I whistled thru my teeth. The large colonial style house occupied an oversized wooded lot in an upscale neighborhood of suburban Philadelphia. Nadia gave me a tour of the house and I met her folks. I found them to be charming but with a sophisticated air and they possessed a command of the English.