" He bowed. "Thank you, Kaiba-san. You've helped me more than I have helped you." I'm glad to have been of some use." I replied.Belief and Faith. Smok...e and mirrors.Eventually the bride and groom left and good grace allowed the guests to begin leaving as well. It was 11pm when a cab dropped me off at Honda's apartment.Pharaoh was sitting on the futon. "Thank Ra." He sighed as he dialed the phone. "He just walked in." He told whoever answered the other end. Then he offered the receiver to me.I. Used or not, it was beyond a doubt the finest shirt I'd ever seen, let alone owned. To go with the shirt were a faded pair of half overalls made by Levi Strauss that Sonja insisted on me calling 'blue jeans', 'jeans' or 'Levis'. The trousers were a bit snug in the seat and legs for my comfort, but the women said they were perfect. I slipped on my boots and grabbed my hat, ready for whatever the women had in mind.They had in mind me waiting an hour and a half while they bathed and dressed. At. She put her hand on my leg and squeezed gently. “Why didn’t you say something?”“Because then you would have cancelled your trip—”“Of course, we would have cancelled it,” said Imogen.“—and that wouldn’t have been fair on you,” I finished. “Wasn’t there a party you were going to or something?”I saw Imogen nod in the rear-view mirror. “But that didn’t matter.”“It did to me. You two have been planning this for a while, and by the time I realised when it was because, if I’m honest, I didn’t take. It’s a lot like our moon, Luna, but smaller. Caeculus is only about four hundred fifty miles in radius. Luna has about a one thousand mile radius. There also small rings around both Vulcan and Caeculus, probably from a smaller rocky moon that broke up eons ago. Vulcan has a large axial tilt. Almost 30 degrees compared to Terra’s 23 degrees. That means there will be rougher weather and a lot of variations in temperature as the seasons go by. We will need to site our colony carefully.“OK, today I.
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