She rose, too, collected her security at the door and left. I caught one of the Barresh councillors frowning at her back.
She seemed to be angry, but I had already learned that with her, appearance and reality weren’t always the same thing. Likewise, she said she didn’t know anything about this group or their claim, but . . . Damn, I wished I could trust her.
One thing I knew was that whenever there was some instability at Asto, the zeyshi outlaws who lived on the fringes of the large cities tried to capitalise on it. They weren’t part of the vast networks or associations of the mainstream Coldi, and made a point of being different and at times loud and obnoxious. But I hadn’t been aware of such an instability on Asto.
I rose from the table. Melissa asked me if Thayu and I would mind po
