"It was almost as if she had heard him and her head turned in our direction and her eyes locked on to our table. She smiled and headed our way and Cha...rlie muttered, "Oh fuck me."The woman walked up to our table, pulled out a chair and sat down. She looked around the table and then in a low sultry voice she said, "Which one of you studs wants to buy a lady a drink?"Charlie waived the waitress over and the woman ordered Tequila with salt and lime and then she looked around the table and her. It feels heavy, ancient and is very different. I did not feel it was evil like the Grork. It tried to suck my mind in, then laughed when it could not get in on one of my earliest visits. It laughed and said, “next time.” I did not risk engaging with it again. It did not report me to the Grork then or at any time over the millennia. I first felt it was a threat, but then I was not sure. I had other business to transact. It brushed my mind over the years. It never went after me and never harmed. “I hear I’m supposed t’ get another extra cargo manifest from you?”Will pulled two sheets of paper out of his pocket, unfolded them and handed them to Mister North.North scanned the list and did a double take. “This a joke?”“No,” Will replied.North looked at him like he was crazy. “As if Miss Hunter’s list wasn’t bad enough. You have any idea how hard it’ll be to find this many ship’s boats on short notice? You have any idea what I’m gonna have to do t’ the Kestrel to hang that many smallboats. His curiosity took hold as he wondered who could be ringing him. Perhaps it was a wrong number, but as the unfound phone continued to ring persistently, he rummaged through his work papers and junk to find the receiver simply to end this confounding irritation. At last he found the phone cord and roughly jerked the receiver from under a pile of books.Moriarty: "Hello, who's this, you have the wrong number." He said crossly.He was greeted by a vaguely familiar feminine voice: "Good evening, is.