Asher "You are beginning to scare me. Don't do that." This was the third person that had come to my office and uttered that exact statement. "What time is it?" I asked for the fourth time. "12:40 pm, why?" "No reason, let me know when it gets to 1 pm." "Alpha, it is almost 1. I don't think the briefing will be done..." "Do it faster then," I interrupted, "I have somewhere to be at one pm and I will go whether you are finished or not." Some things were more important than listening to my beta drone on and on about who did what and what alpha wanted what. "Can we finish what's left after lunchtime then?" "No, I am going back to the company office after lunch." To avoid making Alison suspicious, I told her I was the leader of the town and I needed to attend to the town's business in