Chapter Thirteen
Teiuc, Foremost Ingeneer, was impatient for news. Jaxon watched with interest as Teiuc and Quauhtli, chief of the teshniks, each tried to blame the other for the failure of communication with the raiding party. Seated beside the regent, Jaxon had an excellent view of the petulant argument playing out before them. What interested him most was that Teiuc’s silvery face was becoming quite red, almost as if lit from within. Fascinating. Jaxon had not realised that the ingeneer had as much liveware as all that. He made a mental note—which is to say, he dictated a direction to himself: Check liveware allocation of Foremost Ingeneer. Oversupply?
The debate continued, as such debates would unless Jaxon interfered. The regent was still too diffident to control these meetings, eve
