The Pentangular Gate

5. John had wanted to leave some of his money to Cameron, too, but that would have been far too obvious, and besides, Cam had scoffed when he hesitantly brought the issue up and told John that he wasn't planning on spending his life as a kept man and John was going to outlive him anyway. So instead John had a quiet word with Alex Shah, who John had always found one of the most approachable attorneys at the firm and who had been discreetly involved with another man for ten years, and Alex set up a sort of posthumous trust that didn't have to be named in the will and wouldn't be noticed unless someone went looking for it, with the money to be turned over to Cam if and when he retired from or otherwise left the Air Force. And then John went back and revised his informal will, leaving Cam the tiny silver knife he'd received from the people of Palus on one of his first trade missions in the Pegasus Galaxy. He'd quietly chuckled at the size of the knife, but it had saved his life no less than five times since then, all in entirely improbable ways, and had become something of a good luck charm for him—a symbol of survival in difficult times. He wasn't sure the knife would survive his death since it came on most of missions, but he was hoping it would, and that Cam would get it and understand what it meant.