" Ambrose replied. "Channel open sire." Skylos told him. "Sire? Came Roth's voice. We were worried when you didn't arrive back sooner. I.." There was ... brief struggle then Niaco voice could be heard. "You have worried both your Queens plus all your knights and Paladins! Twitty is an excellent swordswoman though she is only one! Are you about to land?" Niaco fired off her rapid questions. "Yes we are in orbit around earth now. We 'found' help so we will all be there soon. Please tell the king so. When I shut the door behind me, I looked up and saw the last person I’d expected to see. Scott.“You get your head handed to you?” he asked.“How’d you know?”“I had the same talk with him last year. Well, I expect it was the same. I didn’t get my head as far up my ass as you did, but I was pretty intense.”“Yeah?” I couldn’t imagine Scott intense about anything. He was one of the most laid-back guys I knew.“Yeah,” he said with assurance. “But having Coach hand you your head on a platter has one. It?s better that you spend time at the RGL than down at the pool hall.?The bureaucratic official stifled a smirk. The pool sharks had cost him his tuition when Kalle was in college. He had nearly lost his scholarship and his rights to an education-and would have done so cheerfully before he met Andrea. She was, and remained, a powerfully attractive addition to Kalle?s life. Possessing a well-proportioned frame, a stylish composure, and an excellent wit and ambition, she was worth the. His house was spacious, situated along the river with trees and a privacy fence sheltering the view of the back yard from the adjacent properties. The man himself was of medium build, clean shaven, not as tall as Keryl had been expecting, slightly on the squat side compared to her father, and with a typical potbelly for his age, sandy-gray hair and a clean-shaven face with a pleasant, smile. If he was nervous, he was too polite a host to show it.The kennels were compact, mostly indoors in a.