" You know what?" he said. "It sounds like someone wants to kill it but have someone else to blame for doing the dirty work." Yeah, God, don't you jus... love office politics?" Oh, yeah," he shook his head. "That's the one thing I hated about not doing the trip to the city this weekend. I wanted to find out how it's going in our own little internecine struggle. What with all the stuff at the Courier and my regular job, I haven't been able to work on the book much in the last month or so. I try to. My sister started to laugh and said Why the hell would I do that? Her levity made me say in a serious tone She is very important to Peter and to me. Dont cause trouble or do anything to embarrass us. Yumiko got serious and said Sachiko, your not listening. I said I think she is hot. I sat there processing that and said You… Yumiko are you trying to tell me something? She smiled, a bit nervously, and said I guess I am, kind of. I will admit I was pretty surprised by this, if it was going where. "You're the boss." Now the Scorpious Sector is vast, and the sighting of the humans will lose its relevance as time goes on. If they are confident they are not being followed then they will take short jumps and wait a day or two so their ships are charged and ensure the exit point is safe." We could cover more area if we teamed up with another ship," Catana suggested."You know that's a good idea, Catana, but we will have to get someone we can trust." Varna tapped her lips with her fingers for a. . that’s wonderful. Congratulations in advance. Listen, I’d love to talk to you longer but it’s a madhouse here – that gang from Manitoba I told you about is here and I need to get back to work. Are you free, tomorrow morning? ... Yes? Good, I’ll call you.”“Okay. I just wanted you to be the first to know. Er ... Mel... , when you call tomorrow, don’t call too early, okay? We want to get busy starting on Charley as of tonight.”Since the gang from Manitoba had wanted to continue partying until.