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"We have all that in the south, too, if you're rich enough. I adored my governess, but she never told the place of my parents. Well, I can feel free to dislike your father as much as I want now, as he sounds thoroughly unlikeable. How did you turn out so different?"

"And the name's the thing. It seems there is nothing to know of him that you cannot learn just by knowing the name. And that is sad, Cal. To have never grown beyond your name. Have you ever at least felt that he loved your immediate family, just because you were his children? Just because your...

"And you don't share that view," she said. "And you getting released from Her Majesty's service thwarts his hope of you finding favor with the Queen. And I suppose he has always tried to control what you do through threats in disinheritance. But if he follows through, who does he have to pin...

"I wouldn't want a Romeo anyway. One moment he's in love with one woman, the next he's in love with a teenage girl for no reason other than he looked at her. That's not romance, that's insanity. Cal, I don't know your father. One incident, even one that was aimed at me and hurt me tremendously...

"I'm the wrong girl for a Romeo and Juliet ending. I never did learn to swoon or moon over a man. I'm afraid I'm not a proper southern belle after all," she said, letting her own natural accent come out. "I'm afraid if a tragic ending came after us, we'd just kick it in the teeth in make up our...

She paused for a moment. "My urge to over-explain wants to add more, but you are right I think to keep it simple. And it's not as if Mr. Eastman and Miss West aren't there to smooth things over. I would hope they could all at least understand that you would have needed to sleep before making...

Abby looked of the menu until the waiters left the table. "I didn't say you shouldn't. But it's true I'm not used to being around people who can just casually decide to build their own dirigible," she laughed. "Mrs. Parker my do the same with the Dreadnaught, but it's not exactly the most...

She reached across the table and took his hand. "Cal, the Land of Queen Mary is obviously an enormous part of who you are. But it's not all you are. It will take a long time to get a full picture of this man." She smiled and shook her head. "Not many boys can just decide to copy the dirigible...

"The wording will still have to be cryptic, but it's less likely to be looked at. Minor repairs then? Or perhaps a suggestion that we need to lay low? I'm not sure about that one; if we had started back right away we should have been fine."

"That will be a challenge. Any message going to the Queen, or even to Egypt could be suspect. I don't suppose there's any third party you trust to send the telegram to, and then have them send it on?"

"What do you plan to tell her? Minor repairs seems like the obvious choice. You plan for us to be here several days?" Sorry if this is a double post, I'm posting from my tablet, and I'm not seeing my original post.

"What do you plan to tell her? Minor repairs seems like the obvious choice. You plan for us to be here several days?"

"I think you should have some more; it'll make it easier for me to have my wicked way with you later."

"I think you may be a little tipsy. You left out a very important word. Right or wrong choice? I've quite enjoyed it, myself."

"Mmm, hmm, and next you'll be telling me he looks like a potato and aristocrat is a pre-historic lizard," she teased. meta anyone?

"Oh, now you can't be serious. I can believe someone would become tired of being bossed around by a deity, but to become a butler? That's one too far."

"I suppose not. But I'm an American, I don't generally think of gods and governments in the same sentence. Keeping an eye on the actions of gods wouldn't seem... I don't know, necessary to me. Bast is the firs time I've seen evidence of them taking any kind of direction action, after all."

Abby raised her eyebrows. "Well, my travel was an unusual situation. One of my father's friends was able to get me recommended as an assistant to an archeologist who works with a group that had several sites working, so we traveled between them. But hold on a moment here. Extra-dimensional and...

"And that's why I said I understand if you can't. Not every secret is yours, especially when your job is secrets. I'm sure you understand that anything entrusted to me by Mrs. Parker's group must stay with me, too. It really has been years, hasn't it? I've worked in Egypt, Greece, and Norway...

"Oh, that's right! And it likely won't take long for word of the defeat of the Weekly Wizard's to start moving around. A lot of it will be speculation, but Paris loves speculation if I remember her right. Can you tell me what you've been doing since we saw each other last? I know obviously...