The most worrying thing was that they appeared to be resistant to Asto’s heat and, now that I had officially visited Asto, and the official requirement that visitors were Coldi was dropped, people in power at Asto expected Tamerians to turn up and create trouble there.
Because of this, Asto had existed in a state of alertness and, for the first time ever, security checks had been put in place for flights bound for Athyl. They had never bothered previously, because any non-Coldi person would die pretty quickly on Asto, or at least without extensive protection.
And now we had Tamerians in Barresh. Hired by the council? Well, I expected the Barresh council to jump sideways at any time, but hiring Tamerians would be a highly controversial move. Yet here they were.
We walked around the site
