"And that concludes my first year at the South Gate Border Patrol," closed Eudokia. She glanced around at her audience briefly. The reactions varied from the confused, Saki, to the stoic, Haruo, to impossible to read, Yuki. Not taking the temperature of the area, Eudokia pushed on starting to open her mouth. Yuki immediately raised his arm up. "Stop right there, Ayumi. I know I asked you for this and you'd said it was a long story, but if we keep going we'll never get back to the plot." He saw the relief in Saki's face. It was not so much that it was necessarily too much for her to handle, just too much information all at once. There was almost no filter. He glanced back at someone the others did not see. 'Be glad we only gave you the abridged version.' Unseen in the story, Eudokia had

