"They come to an elaborately cast bronze door. Claire ignores the blinking card reader on the wall and opens it with a large key. They pass in and go ...own the wide, blank-walled hall toward a glass-fronted security room lit by twinkling lights and the blue-gray glow of dozens of security monitor screens. As they approach, its side door opens and a woman of amazonian stature fills the opening, smiling broadly."Welcome my sisters. I was beginning to worry." All's well, Dorthea," Claire answers,. " I brushed those thoughts aside and finished out the day. As soon as the final bell rang, I rushed out the back door to find Chandler waiting in her luxury car. I climbed inside and she sped off, exiting the parking lot. She hadn't said a word since our conversation earlier that day and we continued the ride in silence. After a short drive we arrived at her house, as I had assumed we would. The garage was empty so I guessed her parents were away. I followed her inside closing the door behind. Yes, I’ll be there in time for supper. Bye, now.”I nodded to Sally, and she broke out into a little dance. There were other kids around, so I didn’t make a scene about the way she was acting. We walked around until the bell was heard to summon us to class. Oh, Man, that two hours seemed to last forever. Sally had been allowed to bring the family car to school on this day, so we were quick getting to her house.Mrs. Owens was waiting for us as Sally drove up, and she hardly said hello before she. After all the Red Dragon was not really a one man ship. It needed a crew and a base of operations. His plans to go to Pluribus had chanced. His now Karthanian appearing companion told him, that the PSI Corps was out in force and Pluribus for all its size and population density would not be a safe place while the best Psi Talents hunted for his specific psionic mental pattern. Rumors spread fast, that a geat number of Narthhad joined the PSI Corps. Bad apples, criminals and spies were exposed.