The only thing you can do in finishing that can't be fixed fairly easily is to blotch the wood with a stain.

I'll be back in a tick.

So you aren't deserting the Caversham ship. They'll understand. After all, their courtship was pretty whirlwind itself.

Just next door, at Al Azhar University, a rocket mangled the protective metal bars as it crashed through the windows of the president’s office this month, destroying his desk and pocking his walls with shrapnel.