She now glanced at the watch then unceremoniously tossed the phone back into a small handbag. She looked up. The waiter had just reappeared and I saw ...her blue eyes catch the light and smile as she noticed that he was heading towards her carrying a fresh cup of coffee. The British would have called her posh but there seemed to be nothing ostentatious or pretentious about her. Her face simply possessed enough of those indefinable qualities that make a face beautiful. Sure, beauty is in the. Then she added, "I tried to call his cell phone ten times and there was no answer."I wanted to leap for joy. However, I caught myself and said, "Well, maybe he just got hung up in traffic." Yeah, right," she said with a slight slur to her voice. "He can walk to the bar from his office. I sat at the bar and drank by myself all night... fending off twenty guys trying to pick me up." I'm so sorry s*s," I said as sincerely as I could muster. I fought to keep a smile from my face. While I knew what. I don’t want to turn into the bad guy of the whole base.”“What have you told people about the origin of your rare artifact?”“Not a thing. I told Ensign Gordon it’s a secret, and if I told him where I got it, he’d be able to get some himself. That makes it seem even more valuable.”“If this all falls apart, perhaps you can claim you were duped as well?” I offered. “If that happened and you acted even more upset than the rest, it might even make them feel closer to you. You could beg them to help. When the shuttle arrived in response to Luisa’s emergency call, April had simply disappeared. The team had quickly loaded the woman’s sarcophagus and a third of the containers Luisa had found, and returned it to orbit, while Luisa led the away team in search of April. They located the rover nearly ten kilometers away, wrecked at the bottom of a crater. In a macabre twist of fate, April had died when the vehicle’s nose impacted a sharply pointed rock spire. She had been crushed into her seat –.