For one thing, during the daytime the flames were much less visible than they were in the evening and besides, since they were not going to stay very ...long in this place it was not as important as it was the previous night. He therefore used very dry wood - of which there was lot - and thus reduced to a minimum the amount of smoke given off. Another reason that Vincent wanted a fire going was his strong habit of drinking coffee in the morning. Ever since he was sixteen, he had always begun his. They were surprised at her change in manner, Kiki was much more easy going than the acerbic Kennedy. Not many were surprised at the news of the engagement, I may have been the last to see that coming. It still did feel weird being engaged, I’d spent so long suppressing any attachment to Kennedy/Kiki, that I had difficulty expressing it. Kiki didn’t mind, she never does. She seemed happy to be with me, I’m pretty sure she was in love with me, and had been for a while, I wonder what else I’d. .”“The wrangler says the gobblers are getting antsy. They wanna invent something.” His gunner looked back over her shoulder, her own sideburns a fierce, bristling pair that had been dyed and spiked into a sawblade pattern. It made her look like she had eaten a sawmill.“Put them on the screen,” Kursk growled.The main screen flickered from the view of the space battle to the gobbler wrangler. The incredibly tired looking blue skinned torriie who had been put in charge of managing their pack of. “I’m sure I get paid something ... a military rate,” I shrugged. “But nothing like what I earn privately working for Medical Resource.”“I get one Royal a patient, over and above my pay,” Vrion replied.“Damn, that’s good money,” Ginlo gasped.“I get ten thousand Royals a patient for the Medical Resource patients, but I work for free in the lower level medical centre,” I added.“That’s a fortune!” Ginlo exclaimed.“The Empress explained it as a means of encouraging the High Bureaucrats and Nobility.