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"A golden ed down their waitress and ordered a Berengard whiskey

"You too, Sedriil," he said, and Sedriil made his order for a Nebaru herbal tea

"Now that wasn't so hard, was it?" Tescadji said, rolling the sleeve back over his arues in the cause, how has civilian life been treating you? Top brass tells me that you've started you own little service-for-hire business"

"We have," Skori replied curtly "Can you tell us e've corin and a gesture towards Sedriil "Drink first, talk later Look at your brother, Skori He's not so uptight about need-to-know ht about , except maybe his next wraith job, noas he?"

"We didn't come here to be insulted, Tescadji," Sedriil retorted He cast a sour look towards their host

"And let ," Tescaji said "Surely, a man can be curious about the lives of two of the AEF's best operatives, can't he?"

"Former operatives," Sedriil corrected

"I never quibble over details," Tescadji said arily "Oh, and here come our drinks!"

The waitress removed the drinks from her tray, and Tescadji passed her a shtened her formerly passive expression "And now," he said, once the waitress had moved out of earshot, "to business!"

"About time," Skori murmured

"You can cohtly louder voice

"Chief?" Skori and Sedriil echoed simultaneously And then, where there was formerly an empty seat beside Tescadji, there was someone

Jenius, the head of the Android Task Force was nowhere near as tall as Aldrec; he possessed the look of a classic elf His hair was long and blond, and he had large, hazel, ale was close to three hundred, his slightly elongated face still gloith youth, but his eyes were diue world-weariness

"Sir!" Skori and Sedriil sat bolt upright and saluted

"Hey, hey!" Tescadji reached over the table and grasped their ar in public; we're kind of incognito here, if you knohat Iaround at the restaurant clientele "We're out in the open, and the war's long over" He pointed at Jenius "And besides, sir, you're wearing an ATF uniform"