"That?" I asked weakly.
"That," he said, and tore up the paper.
I watched my future as a Legal Eagle flutter down to the floor. "And I thought they were dancing," Thais said sadly.
Well, the story doesn't end quite there. Gleda and I were arrested for running an obscene show. Gleda doesn't speak to me anymore. Nor do any of the people who were there that night. Lyra and Gleda get all their divorces at Pancho's Splitzmart now. It took most of my prot account to bail us out and pay our fines. Thais is with me. We're married and we haven't a prot between us for a divorce, so we'll just have to stay married.
The Venerians came out all right though. They were deported.