[VadeRetro]

LBB had claimed to Slim that the leader of the Vaticani was still a Morton, but that his words had been mistranslated to show otherwise. Slim knew not to trust LBB on anything.

[PatrickHenry]

Slim also was growing concerned about the bad case of fleas he had picked up from that feline bartender back at the Crosstime Saloon. All he had in his first-aid kit was some WD-40, which wasn't doing him much good; somehow he had left his can of Raid at home. Ah well, he thought, those are the perils of interstellar relations.