Jean told me to be careful about our relationship with her and her husband, she did not want Maggie to know or suspect, I said will be careful durring...her stay, Jean said, perhaps I can interest Maggie in replacing me, I know she has not been with a man since her husband died, that would be nice treat for her, you can be her special holiday treat, I said don't know, if it would be ok with her, She said I know she likes younger men year ago she when she was 40 had an affair with a 27 years old. Leah looked over at the entrance to the office as the cop went through the process of reciting her Miranda rights. She saw the woman named Sheri standing off to the side of the other office workers. She wasn't participating in all of the whispering, she just stood there looking at Leah with real concern in her eyes. Leah just gave her a little half-smile and the slightest shrug of her shoulders as if to say "shit happens."As they escorted Leah back down the ramp towards their cruiser, she took. " What are you proposing Prefect?" Another Pride Leader asked more sedately as he looked at Keleru."Nothing what some of you might be thinking?" He said quickly. "We will not make peace with these dogs, nor will we enter into any sort of alliance with them. However, if we open political discussions with them, it will allow us a view into their inner workings, perhaps a trade agreement of some sort. If we do this, we can petition to have an embassy granted to us on both Apo Prime and Earth.. We have no designs upon this area. It's too far from us. We do have a desire to know the land and the people who inhabit it. My brigade is but one party sent out to explore in different directions with varying directives. My directive was to explore the unknown area east beyond the mountains and determine if such a thing as an ocean exits. We ran into the Lu's and brought two with us to replace servant women who had died on the trail. I don't think the Lu's like us very much though they kept.