I'll be back in a tick.

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.

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

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