Chapter Eight
OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS, Fabio didn’t see Thalia and the delegation again. At first, he didn’t worry. Then silence on the news services about the delegation got to him. There had been reports on the first day. Why had they stopped?
He wondered if the lack of reports about the visiting delegation meant anything or if he was getting paranoid. On second thoughts, he was probably already paranoid, so worrying about whether he was paranoid or not was likely a lost cause.
Meanwhile, more and more troops arrived in the section of the base where he was staying. They kept to themselves and didn’t speak to him other than giving him a polite greeting when meeting him in the corridor. He wondered what they were all doing here and tried to search for clues.
The arrival of new troops in
