"I really did have a good evening talking with you and playing chess. I didn't feel any pressure to do something I might not have wanted to and you pr...oved yourself, not that you needed to, as a gentleman, a kind and considerate host. Not to mention you also babysat me while I was knocked out yesterday afternoon. As far as getting back goes; I'm fine as long as I'm back in my apartment before ten tonight so I can get ready for my lunch shift tomorrow." Well, when you have pulled as many girls. He’s as nice as they come. But so is your Mom.’ ‘Yeah, she’s great.’ ‘He’s patient and it’s hard to get him angry. But what I like best is the way he makes me feel about myself. He treats me like I’m a so much better person than I think I am. ‘Sometimes I think I don’t deserve it, but he doesn’t agree.’ ‘I think you do love him. I heard something special in your voice when you said that about him.’ I laughed. ‘You could be right. It would sound special because he is special.’ ‘Oooh. Now you’re. .. You could say I'm a soul, although thats not entirely accurate either.Arrian felt more at ease for some strange reason, he trusted the voice, wherever it came from. He was about to be surprised.Pick me up from the alter, but don't remove me from the sheath."No, fucking way!" he blurted out."Watch your mouth, young man!" his mother yelled from the kitchen.Neither of them really comprehended, the double meaning of her words at this time, but they would soon.This is fucking crazy, my sword. Without comment, he shut the door and locked it. When he resumed his seat, Mista gave Jorie the order to change course to due east towards the ocean. She continued to tap away on the keys for some time."We are invisible to satellite tracking," she said."Took you long enough," Dothan said, more like a growl. "Rusty."Jorie didn't want to stare but he was rapidly concluding that royals were certifiably insane. Maybe they had good reason to be paranoid, but leaning out of FADs and jamming planetary.