At the time of capture, she had a small laser pistol on her, and a holographic emitter. What are my orders?"A different voice came over the speaker."P...repare the slave for transport to the station. We will find out more when it is here."Joshua sat up straighter in his chair when he recognized the voice of the base commander."As you command, my lord. I will lift off in one hour. It will take that long to strip the base." Negative on stripping the base. Set the self destruct if you must, but get. "See for yourself," he said as he backed up the player. When he clicked on the play, the image of the cook shack came on the screen. A few seconds later the camera shook as if someone had picked it up, the the image went to static. "Can't you get it back?" I asked."Not unless Martin is willing to go back and plant a new one. They will be expecting him, so I doubt that he will do that." Mike said."He would be an idiot to do it," I suggested to keep the conversation on the dead camera, not the. “Since we’re going to be together for a few minutes, how about giving me your name, my name’s Mandy” “Oh my,” he replied slightly red faced, “my name’s Sam, Sam Richmond.” Mandy stuck her hand out and offered easily.“Well it’s nice to meet you Sam, now as you were saying…..” “Uh, yeah,” he went on, “Acme Lingerie is the best in the world, and just to show you what I mean, take a look at this!” Mandy sat there a little bit bemused as Sam pulled out a tiny pair of bikini panties as he extolled. Pretty much most of the time, any sloppy seconds that I got were his now.Speaking of Roger, I was fairly certain that he was now busy consummating his marriage to Elisabeth Stanfield, nee Guttmacher, his lovely bride. She didn’t really look as Austrian as her legal father, but everyone in the inner circle knew why. She wasn’t biologically Dieter’s progeny at all, but he had raised her all the same. Her actual sperm donor was of Turkish and Greek origin as well as Slavic, not Austrian-German.