“Vana, I mean, His Highness was very polite. He asked if I had seen you, which I denied. But I asked him to describe this Wing-Captain Rakos Tem. His description was very, um. Illuminating.” No wonder Bell wasn’t as shocked as he should have been last night. Rakos is glad he doesn’t have to keep up the charade anymore, because he was apparently even worse at it than he assumed. “Humiliating. Continue.”
