"Who's that on the throne at the back?" Theo asked, and a woman's voicereplied:"It is my Lord and Master, the mighty god Ghi-Shini!"A tall woman with ...long ash blonde hair stepped forward. She wore an ovalspiked mask with a yellow face and green painted hair on her head and wasclad in a red halter top and green grass skirt. She was lean andmuscular, and her arms were bare."Dr. Falkyn?" I asked her, and she replied:"No longer! I am the High Priestess of Ghi-Shini, ruler and god of thisisland. . But, come sit down. I need to bring you up to speed."Maeve sat down and they went over the events of the morning. Maeve had gotten some files to read before she left Cairo and had some background on the case. She'd also talked with Luther over her own secure wrist com. Pru filled her in on her talk with Baltar or Batuk or whoever it had been on the com."The big problem is developing a dialog with this guy. The small problem is getting some kind of rapport with Captain Jiang. She's pissed off. I pulled my pants up and then just left. I felt a little guilty, but less so as I realized that she didn’t shed a single tear. Not even after I closed the door and leaned up against it for a few minutes to hear if she was crying or not. I did however hear a ‘good riddance’ from her. So with that, I left. My next stop was Elizabeth’s at 8. However, I wasn’t really up for waiting, so I sent her a text asking if I could go ahead and head over. Immediately she responded saying that was okay. She. I giggled to myself as a thought flashed into my head - What would Marianne ever do to top this?I carefully carried the pie out to Marianne. She was literally shaking with laughter. She took the pie and slowly, gently, she pushed it into my face. I could smell the meringue and the lemon as they pushed up my nostrils, clogging my breathing. I felt the cream cover my face all the way back to my ears. She smeared it around and then took the leftover and smeared it across my chest and scooped out.