Meta had her back turned to Mikah and was sitting in the control chair a good five meters from him with her hands filled with navigational notes. She slowly raised her head and looked at Jason and a smile broke across her face. "You said once you didn't want him killed." "I still don't want him killed, but I also have no intention of going to Cassylia." He echoed her smile and turned away. He sighed happily and there was a sudden rush of feet behind his back. No shots were fired but a hoarse scream, a thud and a sharp cracking noise told him that Mikah had lost his last argument. * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's The Ethical Engineer, by Henry Maxwell Dempsey