“Hello?” Brent said on the other end.“Hold on, Brent, let me put you on speaker,” I said. I sat my phone on my lap.“Hi, Em! Hi, guys!” Bre...nt said, his voice loud in the quiet hall. I lowered the volume.“Hi, Brent!” Jess said. “Are you all squared away to watch everything from the station?”“Yep,” he replied. “I’m in my private room used for sleeping. It doesn’t hold anything other than a twin bed, but it’ll do.”“K, Brent,” I said. “Open the app I setup on your phone and press the button that. Lee. "What is that?" "This is the Medal Of Racial Equality. It comes from the days ofslavery. It was worn by slaves to help them pave their way to freedom onthe Underground Railway." "What does it do?" "It changes the heart of any racist within a hundred yards of thewearer. Just put it around your neck and it will make any white man withracism in his heart learn to love and respect black men." "You are saying that by just wearing this, it would change Mr. White'sattitude towards me?" . Dar would never be mistaken for an Ardali either." Nothing says the ship has to be Ardali operated, just Ardali built. If it comes down to it, we pretend that Dar is just a mascot, or pet or something." Yeah, he'd love that, wouldn't he? It better not come too that." I hope it never does. We'll have to see."Their quarters on the Eudoxus were quickly abandoned in favor of far more spacious accommodations aboard the Kadamon. Dar had the captain's quarters, obviously, and those quarters included a. He emphasized thatDavid shouldn't do anything drastic like a crash diet or goingoverboard on the exercise.Two months of salads, jogging, and swimming laps in the pool at hiscomplex helped him lose twelve pounds and he was feeling better abouthimself. He'd mostly gotten used to being hairless, except when he'dget creepy looks from this old neighbor guy he'd sometimes run into atthe pool. He'd taken to swimming at night to avoid him. The downsideis that he didn't get enough sun to develop much.