I'd know that shitty haircut anywhere. I also noticed that in the photo she was wearing a one of a kind necklace that I'd had made for her on our hone...moon in Mexico."That is you, Katherine," I said. "What is going on?" She has me confused with ... maybe she has the dates wrong. I think her father might have been one of the guys I dated before I met you and..." Bullshit!" I yelled. "In that photo, you're wearing the necklace I bought you on our honeymoon. How the hell is that possible?" My. ..”Arlene glanced at her partner before she turned back to the others. As she took a small object from the collar of her uniform, “We each have a personal communicator. I’ll leave mine here. Ann will call you when we know something.”Mia frowned as she stared at the button-sized object in her hand. “Are you saying that this is a radio?”“Radio? No, but Ann will be able to communicate with you by using it. Should you wish to talk to us, just hold the communicator and say my name or Ann’s. It will. .." Briskly escorted." Tenchi interjected, rolling his tongue."By Tanzuru honor guard." She continued. Nodding her assent to his choice of terminology with a mildly pained expression."To the staging area," Ayeka gestured to the massive tent behind and now slightly below their position."Where you will dress in the appropriate robes of office." Dose the condemned get a last meal?" Tenchi snorted with a half grin."It is assumed you will have already eaten by this point." Ayeka supplied sourly. "How was your month?" Super busy. I spent half my time at Bandar Arenas." I paused for a moment and then laughed. "And it felt as if I spent the rest of the time in supersonic jets. I was in a dozen different townships, often for only a few hours at a time."Abigail nodded and laughed back. "I suspected as much! Mudar?" Yeah. And it wasn't just negotiations with Royalty. For me, it was also a crash course in inter-Guild diplomacy. I was often the only CL-12 in the room. All the top commanders in.