I had a list of the robberies that had already happened, so it did not take me long to find the pattern.There were only five places where most of the ...robberies happened, and there seemed to be a sequence about where they happened. The bandits were smart enough to skip around with their robbery locations, but they were following a pattern. I guessed that they figured that if the sequence had worked so far, there was no need to change it. Well, I was about to prove them wrong.If they stuck to. . you can't just ask someone if they love the 60's ... you know?" Gossip!" He said simply."Gossip??" I repeated in a question."Sure. Gossip tells you who's sleeping with whom and why and what they got out of it. Then you watch to see who moves on to what next."I was quiet as I thought about that. I could picture him sitting up in his office listening to all the office gossip and watching girls walk by guys shaking things a bit more, maybe groping a feel here and there. Or waiting to see who'd. .. no rush. Right?”Techne smiled at me. “Yeah.”GOINGThe rush to Eudaimonia skipped us a lot of the Chain.The Tiamat II let us skip even more. But it didn’t mean we didn’t need to stop from time to time. When I dreamed, I dreamed of Thale, and we didn’t speak of what separated us. He held me and I held him and we tried to not think of the stars between us.But when I was awake, I started to walk beneath alien skies once more.On Diaphorus, Mal and I drove a sheetsled across the vast, artificial. I watched TV for alittle while and then hopped in the shower. I put on some clothes andwent over to Bridgette?s dorm. I knocked on her door and she opened thedoor and let me in. Laid across her bed were two sets of clothes. Onewas a white men?s 3 piece suit and a black shirt and the other was abright red dress that appeared to be off the shoulders and straplesswith a pair of red 3 inch strappy heels. I turned and looked at her.Bridgette said, ?The theme for this costume party is old movies..