Steel Breath
FRANCIS HAD reluctantly taken the appointment. He did not want to allow the opportunity for frivolity with Sam, so Francis had his secretary pen the time for five p.m. exactly. Francis had his theories for Sam’s subsequent meeting request so shortly after denial of auctioning the Kruppla within Plexus. Francis candidly admitted to himself that he was tired from the week, as well as the entailments with Sam. The thought of expulsion from Plexus had crossed his mind several times but knew he could not do so yet. Once a member was inducted, a suit of ejection required harm to Plexus, conviction for a felony, or a deliberate act which could be deemed reprimandable by Plexus overseer or vote. None of these predicaments were applicable to Sam thus far, but Francis was growing irrit
