"We should be able to help ourselves, not to rely on others; I told you all that this would have failed to work." Art'n spoke up addressing the Counci...l."We had decided that the attempt should be made, by having one of the known apprentices to work with to prevent the enemy from knowing our plans it was the only way to bring The Stranger here, but it could be that the enemy has already learnt of our plans and have diverted him to their side. If that is so then we are lost." Jo'ha said."Just why. "I need another drink," Dawn danced over to the bar, her bare back glistening with sweat. It was only then that Faith paid any attention to the weapon that was protruding from a scabbard half by her belt tightly across her waist. It actually matched Dawn's outfit and, given the type of crowd at the bar, looked as though it could have been an accessory rather than an actual weapon. But the exposed skin was too much of a temptation, and she chose to pay attention to the girl rather than the. Mary Goldfour was incorporated as Lustease, and started trading on the stock market, opening at a prestigious $44. a share. Her classy and seamless customized "live" interactive video encounters, tens of thousands per day, had garnered Name Recognition as well as truck-loads of money. By having every country which wanted a tax bite believing that the corporation and its employees belonged to some other Country, she got away with only paying a minimal 'Corporate Tax' for doing business in each. .. DAISY!)---or if he didn't start talking about it my mom would.As geeky as my land family was there is just no way that a thing likethis would never have been discussed.So this whole situation was extremely weird. An alarms-going-off-in-my-head level of weirdness, like when I first realized that those 'movieactor' pirates were the real thing. Something was seriously out of whackhere! And what was with all this strange hardware- from their boat'sself-guiding anchor to Valerie's 'air-extractor'.