"Please be sure somebody updatedsexgalleries checks it tomorrow morning. But updatedsexgalleries don't go up
there before then."
"I wouldn't dream of updatedsexgalleries it," she updatedsexgalleries assured him faintly.
"Come on, Miles," Ivan urged over his shoulder.
"Just a second."
Miles darted back inside to Elli Quinn, still seated obediently in the
living room. He pressed the wad of leftover bills into her palm, and closed
her fingers over it.
"updatedsexgalleries Combat bonus," he whispered to her. "updatedsexgalleries For upstairs just now. You earned
it."
He kissed her hand and ran after Ivan.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Miles banked the lightflyer in a gentle, demure turn around Vorhartung
Castle, resisting a nervous urge to updatedsexgalleries slam it directly down into the
courtyard. The ice had broken on updatedsexgalleries the river winding updatedsexgalleries through the updatedsexgalleries capital city
of Vorbarr Sultana, running a chill green now from the snows melting in the
Dendarii updatedsexgalleries Mountains far to the south. The ancient building straddled high
bluffs; the lightflyer rocked in the updraft puffing from the river.
updatedsexgalleries the modern city spread out for kilometers around updatedsexgalleries was bright and noisy
with morning traffic. The parking areas near the castle were jammed with
vehicles of all descriptions, and knots of men in half-a-hundred different
liveries.
Updatedsexgalleries ivan, beside Miles, counted the banners snapping in the cold
updatedsexgalleries spring breeze on the battlements.
"It's a full Council session," said Ivan. "I don't think there's a banner
missing-there's even Count updatedsexgalleries Vortala's, and I don't think he's been to one updatedsexgalleries in
years. Must have been carried in. Ye gods, Miles! There's the Emperor's
banner-Gregor
must be inside."
"You could figure that from all the fellows on the roof in Imperial
livery with updatedsexgalleries the anti-aircraft plasma guns," observed Miles. He flinched
inwardly.
One such weapon was updatedsexgalleries swivelling to follow their track even now,
like a suspicious eye.
Slowly and carefully, he set the lightflyer down in a painted circle
outside the castle walls.
"Y'know," said Ivan thoughtfully, "We're going to look a pair of updatedsexgalleries damn
fools busting in there if it turns out they're all having a debate on water
rights or something."
"That thought has crossed my mind," Miles admitted. "It was a calculated
risk, landing in secret. Well, we've both been fools before. There won't be
anything new or startling in it."
He checked the time, and updatedsexgalleries paused a moment in updatedsexgalleries the pilot's seat, bent his
head