)Mark smiled back and exclaimed, "Why didn't you just tell, or ask me, or something. Why all this kidnap the boss and make him fall in love with you s...tuff, fun and scary as it was. I might have liked a say in all this." She smiled back and caressed his hand that was in hers..."What, and ruin all this fun you and I've had. Think of the memories when the kids ask how mom and mom met." She laughed loudly and Mark joined her. He needed that laugh, and smiled back at her, he then realized he was. “You are so early, that you have many options,” I said. “We need people to work both the rail guns and the missiles, and we even need people to work the engines. You can pretty much pick and choose.”“Me work the engines?” Raccoon said with a snort. “That’s not something I could do well.”“So that leaves you working in the missile bays or dealing with a railgun. Which do you want for now?” I asked.“Now? Why just now?” Raccoon asked.“You might find that you want to try something else, or we might. If you find someone with healing magic, they might be able to undo the damage, but otherwise, I can’t imagine your arm will ever regain its full use or strength.”“That’s fine,” she said with a monotone voice and dead fish eyes. She shuddered as if shaking herself awake. “No, it’s not fine, it’s terrible. But ... I don’t have to worry about using a bow.”“You’re quitting being an adventurer?”“After everything we went through in that dungeon ... I don’t ever want to experience something like that. "Were valid," the man replied."What does that mean?" the librarian replied, shock evident in her voice."Shut up here comes the food," the man hissed.They ate in silence for a while, the librarian struggling with the amountof food in front of her but the man's glare told her he was serious aboutgetting the blender."The daughter's name is Stacy and she's twenty. She's a good kid but shecarried a lot of baggage with her at her old school because of who hermother is." Sloane met my boss, Steve.