Twelve years almost. You were with Interpol, on loan from your city police. Birmingham, wasn't it?" That's right. I'd just started there and you were ...working with us on the human smuggling file. I wish I could say we put a stop to it, but all we managed was a finger in the dike." I was on loan to INS at the time," I recalled. "That was an interesting two years. I got pulled off when 9/11 happened." Yes, I remember. Bloody mess, that. We should have seen it coming." We did. We just didn't pay. Hell, most of the RAFTRAWI staff were convinced they were screwing anyway. Jana knew that and she didn't care. Fuck it! If they believed he was stealing the cake, he might as well have a lick of the icing.There was just one little problem he needed to solve and that was the hard part, living with himself afterwards. With or without Benin.When Jana arrived at work the next day, she instantly knew something was troubling John. He wouldn't look at her, he pretended she wasn't there. Even as they. " Not that bad... I saw the images from your recorder, and know everything that you saw on the ship, and the way you acted later. Who is full of shit now?" We... you could be right. By the way. Why did you park the ship where Earth will see it?" They already know of your escapades, in getting away from the other base. My hull is still in plain view. They will not know any more, by seeing a damaged ship in orbit. When the other ships, come to find out about what happened, then Earth will have. Lani watched as one of the staff behind the counter grabbed a cell phone. Someone had some common sense, she was relieved to see. Lani was tempted to go see if the man was all right, but wasn’t sure it was a wise move to get past the attacker. "See? See!" The woman's voice hit a pitch that made Lani wince. "Someone call the police!" The woman waved her hands frantically. "He assaulted that man! He's a menace! Call the police!" "Go ahead!" The man turned on the woman. Despite his having at least.