"But nonetheless, that's the first and most important thing on my mind. The next thing is that we have to throw what's left of my old rules and bounda...ries out the window." Now you're talking," Suzanne agreed."But everybody needs rules to live by, so we have to have some rules. We'll start from scratch. Actually, we should build on The Pact that Tiger forced us to agree to yesterday." Now, hold on," Suzanne said. "He didn't force us to agree to anything. We all freely-"Susan interrupted with a. She has already met with Major Connie Ross. They have been hard at work together, which is why you didn’t meet her at lunch. She will update you on what we know and have been thinking.”Matilda stood up to speak, “We have returned your senior intelligence assets back to the planet together with some of our people.“We are attempting to assess if there are other hidden reserves of fighters and soldiers. We are also interrogating the senior priests. I think we have done about as much as we can do. I got a bus and it seemed to crawl its way to Rochdale due to traffic and the snowy conditions. Just after 2:15pm I pulled into the bus station and got off and walked back up towards the shop where K said she would be sitting. And there she was sat on the seat just around the corner. She was wearing the black n blue flower patterned dress with some dark blue jeans and black boots with a black coat. She saw me and got up and we said hello and kissed. We walked hand in hand back down and out of. Aaaannnd ... Fourth, you could stay with me to cut down on your commute and keep from putting all those miles on your car.”A smile had slowly come upon her face and she asked, “Did you just ask me to live with you, Rann?”“Just a minute ... and Fifth, you could come live with me.”“Just a minute, Rann.” There was suddenly a bit of tension in the car. I could feel it as well as hear it, my heart beating. She got this wonderfully wicked smile on her face. “I’ve made up my mind, Rann ... my final.