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WE WAITED.
I sat down on one of the benches, looking into the fountain. I’d often wondered what Coldi would do when two of their multiple networks gave clashing signals. Thayu had looked puzzled when I asked her about it, as if that sort of thing never happened, but it must, and they must have some way of reconciling the less serious cases. For the more serious ones . . . I guessed we were about to find out.
It never ceased to amaze me what some people, Coldi or otherwise, would do for power. So, Delegate Ayanu was annoyed by my growing influence with Ezhya, and therefore she sent her daughter to prey on Nicha, to take advantage of him when he was down, just so that she had some strings to pull inside my association.
And there would be a little boy living in my household who was the
