Hackworth was not really hungry anymore. It was clear that Royal Joint 
Forces Command had figured out at least some of what had happened, and that 
Finkle-McGraw knew about it too. They had decided to approach him privately 
instead of simply lowering the boom on him and drumming him out of the phyle. 
This should have filled him with boundless relief, but it didn't. Things had 
seemed so simple after his prosecution
in the Celestial Kingdom. Now he suspected they were about to get infinitely 
more complicated.