It was almost as if Sidon paid attention, or something! Imagine that!

But for every reaction out of Vette that left him feeling perhaps a little disappinted and maybe confused, there were at least three like this, that seemed to somehow exceed any expectation he may have had, and so beautifully, too, and he laughed again, beaming, maybe needing to just squeeze her a little because he just had to do something with all these waves of adoration he was feeling.

"It must clearly be that supreme luck of mine, hard at work again," he said. "Now, it might take some doing, of course, as I hear it's been sealed for a long time and, again, not many venture that way, but I imagine that, if anyone could manage to take a crack at it, it would be you, Vette."