Every time they said were getting close, it turned out we were chasing smoke."I wish I could tell you more."General Smith entered the tent.Everybody e...xcept the kid stood at attention."At ease."Everyone sat down and resumed eating.General Smith approached the Stone family's table. "You told them." Yes sir."The General looked them over. Then his gaze lingered on the kid at that table. "Nowhere near enough I'll bet."The kid just asked calmly, "Did the information saved really include useful. Calliope was acting cool about it, but as usual Ashryn wasn’t having any of that. She immediately bounced over to hug Calliope’s arm, exclaiming, “Oh, Calli, you look so lovely in yours! Oh, and the shade perfectly matches your eyes! I guess because Theodore and you spent so much time looking at each other over tomes and textbooks, right? Ooh, I’m jealous of your school romance!”The attention made Calliope blush, and immediately broke any bad feelings between them. Not for the first time, I was. Just as Calvin and Karen started to head off, Paige and Jessica showedup. "What was that about?" Jessica asked, and thankfully we were ableto ease her motherly concerns. We assured her we were just giving herparent's all our contact numbers, just in case. I tried to tease myfriend a bit about it."Don't worry, we are on the case," I said which earned me another lookand a reprimand from Paige to Jessica that we really did want to help.We sat down in the lobby and were soon joined by Snikki as. Robinson sat at his desk, looking busy and made me wait for about two minutes before he looked up and said, ‘Yes? Why are you here?’ And with a haughty look continued, ‘I’m done with you, I have no need of your services again, Steele.’ Steele, not Mr. Steele, just Steele pronounced like it left a bad taste in his mouth. My dislike for good old Jonathan increased. The way Robinson had spoken to me and his obvious distain made up my mind on how I wanted to handle this. I sat down in one of the.